Stack S
Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 1990 Sep;25(5):269-73. doi: 10.1007/BF00788648.
Previous work on suicide and the media has neglected theoretical issues. Some work has implied that only celebrity suicides can be expected to trigger additional suicides in the real world. The present study focuses on non celebrity suicides. Correcting coding errors in a previous work, it finds that the suicides of non celebrities are associated with increases in the national suicide rate. An index of publicized celebrity suicide stories was, however, more closely associated to increases in suicide than the publicized non celebrity stories. The model explains 90 percent of the variance in monthly suicide rates.
先前关于自杀与媒体的研究忽略了理论问题。一些研究暗示，只有名人自杀才可能在现实世界中引发更多自杀事件。本研究聚焦于非名人自杀。通过纠正先前研究中的编码错误，研究发现非名人自杀与全国自杀率上升有关。然而，与非名人自杀事件相比，名人自杀事件的媒体报道指数与自杀率上升的关联更为紧密。该模型解释了月度自杀率变化的90%。
