Universidad de Málaga.
J Gen Psychol. 2024 Jul-Sep;151(3):406-424. doi: 10.1080/00221309.2023.2276803. Epub 2023 Oct 30.
High suicide rates are a major issue in Spain, to the extent that they are the main non-natural cause of death in this country. The present study analyses the relationship between Internet searches and actual suicide rates in Spain. For this purpose, we employ data from actual suicide rates and Google searches for Spain, differencing by the means used to commit suicide. Our results show that suicide ("") search term seems to be positively associated with higher total suicide rates, in addition to suicides using poison, suffocation and jumping. The suicide ("") topic presents similar results to the suicide search term, and suicide by car crash also seems to be associated with Internet searches of this topic.
自杀率高是西班牙的一个主要问题，其严重程度已经成为该国主要的非自然死因。本研究分析了西班牙互联网搜索与实际自杀率之间的关系。为此，我们利用西班牙实际自杀率和谷歌搜索数据，并按自杀手段进行了差分。研究结果表明，自杀（“suicide”）搜索词似乎与更高的总自杀率呈正相关，除了使用毒药、窒息和跳楼自杀的情况。自杀（“suicide”）主题呈现出与自杀搜索词相似的结果，车祸自杀似乎也与该主题的互联网搜索有关。
