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Independent ANOVAS were performed to interpret the significance of main and interaction effects.</p> <p>No main effects were found. Two 2-way interaction effects were revealed. Women presented with the White female target figure had the highest mean score. Suicide ideators had the highest mean on rating the target figure as a close personal friend.</p> <p>None of the hypotheses proved to be significant. Future researchers should use a more heterogeneous sample.</p>","abstract_html":"&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of gender on attitudes toward Black and White suicidal females.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Participants included 37 Caucasian graduate students who completed demographic questionnaires, Suicide Behavior Questionnaires (SBQ) (Ellis &amp; Jones, 1996), and one of two scenarios with a modified version of the Suicide Attitude Vignette Experience Scale (SAVE) (Stillion, White, Edwards, &amp; McDowell, 1989). The research design was a 2 (sex of participant) x 2 (suicide ideation of participant) x 2 (race of target figure) independent groups factorial. Independent ANOVAS were performed to interpret the significance of main and interaction effects.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;No main effects were found. Two 2-way interaction effects were revealed. Women presented with the White female target figure had the highest mean score. Suicide ideators had the highest mean on rating the target figure as a close personal friend.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;None of the hypotheses proved to be significant. 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