Hassan R
Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 1995 Sep;29(3):480-3. doi: 10.3109/00048679509064957.
This study investigates the impact of newspaper stories on the incidence of suicide in Australia. The effects of suicide stories appearing in two major metropolitan newspapers between 1.1.1981 and 31.12.1990 were examined. The findings show that the daily average suicide rate in Australia increases significantly after the publication and publicity of suicide stories in the Australian media; the rise tends to be primarily due to the increase in male suicide and not female suicide. Some plausible explanations of this finding are advanced.
本研究调查了报纸报道对澳大利亚自杀率的影响。研究考察了1981年1月1日至1990年12月31日期间出现在两份主要都市报纸上的自杀报道的影响。研究结果表明，澳大利亚媒体对自杀报道进行发布和宣传后，澳大利亚的日均自杀率显著上升；这种上升趋势主要是由于男性自杀率的上升，而非女性自杀率。文中对这一研究结果提出了一些合理的解释。
