Do media coverage of suicides and search frequency on suicides predict the number of tweets seeking others for a suicide pact?

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Sang Yup Lee¹ 

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关键词: suicide pact;    Twitter;    social media;    search frequency;    celebrity suicide;    media coverage of suicides;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1260567

 received in 2023-07-20, accepted in 2023-09-18,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

We examined whether media coverage of suicides and frequencies of searching for suicide methods or suicide pacts predicted the number of users posting tweets seeking others for a suicide pact. Analyses of 6,119 tweets containing “suicide pact” posted on Twitter during a 6-month period revealed that the number of users posting tweets seeking others for a suicide pact had a positive association with media coverage of celebrity suicides, but not with that of suicide pact victims, and a greater positive association with the search frequency for suicide methods than for suicide pacts. We found that the search frequency on suicide methods was positively associated with media coverage of celebrity suicides, while that on suicide pacts was more strongly related to media coverage of suicide pacts.

【 授权许可】

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