Mason Andre, Jang Kyungho, Morley Kirsten, Scarf Damian, Collings Sunny C, Riordan Benjamin C
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand.
Discipline of Addiction Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Central Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2021 Oct;24(10):642-647. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0521. Epub 2021 Feb 18.
Despite a growing understanding of the triggers for suicidal thoughts and behavior, little is known about the mechanisms that prevent people from killing themselves. The goal of the present study was to use publicly available Reddit data to better understand the reasons that people give for not following through with a potentially lethal suicide attempt. Threads containing key terms (e.g., "kill yourself") within the subreddit /r/AskReddit were collected and all top posts from these threads were thematically coded. Across the posts collected, 11 different themes were identified; friends and family, curiosity and optimism about the future, spite, purpose, transience, hobbies, animals/pets, fear of survival, fear of pain, death and/or the afterlife, apathy/laziness, and intervention. Some additional themes were captured in an "other" category, and a twelfth theme, use of pharmaceutical drugs, was identified, but not discussed. These findings provide a broad overview about the proximal protective factors that directly stopped people from making a suicide attempt. They also illustrate the potential for Reddit as platform through which to better understand factors that may help to identify and support those in suicidal crisis. Such insight may help to inform intervention and prevention strategies for suicide and those in suicidal crisis.
尽管人们对自杀念头和行为的触发因素有了越来越多的了解，但对于阻止人们自杀的机制却知之甚少。本研究的目的是利用Reddit上公开的数据，更好地理解人们不实施可能致命的自杀企图的原因。收集了子版块/r/AskReddit中包含关键词（如“自杀”）的帖子，并对这些帖子的所有热门帖子进行了主题编码。在收集的帖子中，识别出了11个不同的主题：朋友和家人、对未来的好奇心和乐观态度、怨恨、目标、短暂性、爱好、动物/宠物、对生存的恐惧、对疼痛的恐惧、死亡和/或来世、冷漠/懒惰以及干预。在“其他”类别中还捕捉到了一些额外的主题，并且识别出了第十二个主题——使用药物，但未进行讨论。这些发现提供了关于直接阻止人们自杀企图的近端保护因素的广泛概述。它们还说明了Reddit作为一个平台的潜力，通过这个平台可以更好地理解可能有助于识别和支持处于自杀危机中的人的因素。这样的见解可能有助于为自杀及处于自杀危机中的人制定干预和预防策略提供信息。
