ATTITUDES TOWARD SUICIDE - GERMAN AND US NATIONALS

The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ) was administered to two sample s of adult volunteers: 172 Germans and 172 U.S. nationals. An analysis of the results indicated five major findings: 1) statistically signif icant gender differences in attitudes toward suicide were obtained in both samples. 2) These gender differences showed consistency across th e two samples. 3) Statistically significant differences between German and United States samples were obtained on all eight SOQ scales. 4) T he differences between countries were significant for both males and f emales considered separately, with one exception. 5) Finally, four SOQ scales showed significant but modest correlation with age in both sam ples.