Çelik Mustafa, Kalenderoğlu Aysun, Almiş Habib, Turgut Mehmet
Department of Psychiatry, Adıyaman University School of Medicine, Adıyaman, Turkey.
Department of Pediatrics, Adıyaman University School of Medicine, Adıyaman, Turkey.
Noro Psikiyatr Ars. 2016 Mar;53(1):83-84. doi: 10.5152/npa.2015.9988. Epub 2016 Mar 1.
Suicide is an intentional self-destructive act. As conceptualization of death as an irreversible end occurs at approximately 8-10 years, attempted and completed suicides are rare before 7 years of age. Studies have suggested that media may contribute to increased suicides in adolescents through social learning. Effects of media on suicides were thoroughly evaluated in children and adolescents who committed suicide after identifying with the subject of a TV program, movie, or book. We present 2 cases at 5 years of age who committed suicide by hanging themselves after watching a TV program. These cases differed from copycat suicides reported in the literature that are performed mostly by adolescents because victims are very young children and because they died without an actual intent to die while they were imitating suicides. By presenting these cases, we want to emphasize that destructive effects of media may involve not only adults and adolescents but also very young children who do not have a completely developed concept of death.
自杀是一种故意的自我毁灭行为。由于大约在8至10岁时才会形成死亡是不可逆转的结局这一概念，因此7岁之前很少有自杀未遂和自杀成功的情况。研究表明，媒体可能通过社会学习导致青少年自杀率上升。在那些认同电视节目、电影或书籍中的自杀情节后自杀的儿童和青少年中，对媒体对自杀的影响进行了全面评估。我们报告2例5岁儿童在观看电视节目后上吊自杀的案例。这些案例与文献中报道的模仿自杀案例不同，后者大多由青少年实施，因为受害者是非常年幼的儿童，而且他们在模仿自杀时并无真正的死亡意图却最终死亡。通过呈现这些案例，我们想强调媒体的破坏性影响可能不仅涉及成年人和青少年，还包括那些尚未完全形成死亡概念的非常年幼的儿童。
