Stack S
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, USA.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1996 Summer;26(2):132-42.
Research on media impacts on suicide has been largely restricted to the United States, a Christian nation marked by moral aversion to suicide. The present study extends the analysis to an Eastern nation, Japan, where people are less critical of those who suicide. Such a cultural definition of suicide might multiply imitative effects. Yule-Walker times series estimates indicate that the imitative effect is restricted to stories concerning Japanese victims. Further, the increase is similar in magnitude to that reported in the American cultural context. The Japanese audience may not be as predisposed to media effects, given a lower divorce rate, low couple centeredness, and a high level of extended family social support. These factors may offset a potentially very high "Werther effect." The model explains 88% of the variance in monthly Japanese suicide rates.
关于媒体对自杀影响的研究主要局限于美国，这是一个对自杀持道德厌恶态度的基督教国家。本研究将分析扩展到一个东方国家——日本，在日本，人们对自杀者的批评较少。这种对自杀的文化定义可能会增加模仿效应。尤尔-沃克时间序列估计表明，模仿效应仅限于与日本受害者相关的报道。此外，这种增加的幅度与美国文化背景下报道的幅度相似。考虑到日本较低的离婚率、低夫妻中心度和高水平的大家庭社会支持，日本受众可能对媒体影响的倾向较小。这些因素可能抵消潜在的非常高的“维特效应”。该模型解释了日本每月自杀率变化的88%。
