Resource Tag: CELEBRITIES

A substantial amount of evidence indicates that news coverage of suicide deaths by celebrities is followed by an increase in suicide rates, suggesting a copycat behavior. However, the underlying process by which celebrity status and media coverage leads to increases in subsequent suicides is still unclear. This study collected over 1 million individual messages (“tweets”) posted on Twitter that were […]

BACKGROUND: Research has already acknowledged the importance of the Internet in suicide prevention as search engines such as Google are increasingly used in seeking both helpful and harmful suicide-related information. AIMS: We aimed to assess the impact of a highly publicized suicide by a Hollywood actor on suicide-related online information seeking. METHOD: We tested the […]

The interpretation of suicide involves theories from many disciplines, and the strain theory of suicide is a socialÐpsychological model that attempts to account for this complicated behavior. We have earlier explored the presence of psychological strains in a number of diverse samples of suicides and in the present study, we identified the strains experienced throughout […]

Unlike other East Asian countries, South Korea has until recently experienced relatively few charcoal burning suicides. We investigated trends in charcoal burning suicide immediately following the suicide by charcoal burning of the South Korean celebrity, Ahn Jae-Hwan, in September 2008. In the study, we compared the weekly number charcoal burning suicides 1 year before and […]

Reports on celebrity suicide are associated with increases in suicides. Study region and celebrity type appear to have an impact on the effect size. Contact us for a copy of this article, or view online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224811832_Changes_in_suicide_rates_following_media_reports_on_celebrity_suicide_A_meta-analysis?ev=publicSearchHeader&_sg=muw2ymUYeplNwbq3J5DMkK20zaO5r-kOoYFXnWIRR-jBZW8Yp_eIS-wb0UKrOf_4mOPQW-63HY1LWmo

This study investigated the nature of media coverage of a national entertainer’s suicide and its impact on subsequent suicides. After the celebrity suicide, the number of suicide-related articles reported surged around 80 times in the week after the suicide compared with the week prior. Many articles (37.1%) violated several critical items on the World Health […]