Do Televised Fictional Suicide Models Produce Suicides? (IN: Suicide Among Youth: Perspectives on Risk and Prevention, ed. by C R Pfeffer)

Following a review of existing studies & a discussion of the methodological prerequisites for testing the imitation hypothesis, the authors discuss their study of the effect of a television movie, broadcast twice, that includes the suicide of a young man. Findings suggest that it lasts much longer than a number of days after the perception of a model. (94 ref)