Stack S
Auburn University.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1988 Winter;18(4):342-57. doi: 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1988.tb00172.x.
The literature of the impact of publicized suicide stories on suicide has neglected the influence of social contexts. In the present study, the context of a popular war was inspected. A Durkheimian perspective was tested, wherein the context of war would lower suicide through promoting social integration. Suicide stories in such times should have less of an impact than in times of peace. Data were collected on widely publicized suicide stories during the World War I decade. A Cochrane-Orcutt iteractive time series analysis found that publicized suicide stories during war had no impact on suicide. In contrast, peacetime suicide stories were associated with an increase of 48 suicides. This is significant, since the electronic media were nonexistent and hence could not reinforce the publicity in the printed media, as they do today. Further analysis of the relationship found similar results for New York City.
关于公开报道的自杀事件对自杀行为影响的文献忽略了社会背景的影响。在本研究中，考察了一场著名战争的背景。检验了涂尔干的观点，即战争背景会通过促进社会整合来降低自杀率。在这样的时期，自杀事件报道产生的影响应比和平时期小。收集了第一次世界大战十年间广泛公开报道的自杀事件的数据。一项科克伦-奥科特迭代时间序列分析发现，战争期间公开报道的自杀事件对自杀行为没有影响。相比之下，和平时期的自杀事件报道与自杀率增加48例相关。这很重要，因为当时不存在电子媒体，因此无法像如今这样强化印刷媒体的宣传效果。对这种关系的进一步分析在纽约市也得到了类似结果。
