Attempted Suicide in Social Networks

Kreitman, Norman; Smith, Poco; Tan, Eng-Seong

doi:10.1097/00043764-197104000-00033

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“…Kreitman et al 1969Kreitman et al , 1970Diekstra, 1974;Murphy & Wetzel, 1982). In contrast, Welz & Hafner (1984) observed a larger number of individuals exhibiting suicidal behaviour in the wider social network of a parallel control group as compared with the social network of a group of individuals who had attempted suicide.…”

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The Werther effect after television films: new evidence for an old hypothesis

1988

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SYNOPSIS In this study it was possible to prove the Werther effect in suicides after watching fictional models for the first time. A twice-broadcast (1981, 1982) six-episode weekly serial showing the railway suicide of a 19-year-old male student provided a quasi-experimental ABABA design to investigate differential effects of suicide imitation. Imitation effects were most clearly observable in the groups whose age and sex were closest to those of the model. Over extended periods (up to 70 days after the first episode), the number of railway suicides increased most sharply among 15-to 19-year-old males (up to 175%); the effect steadily decreased in the older age groups, so that no effect was observable for males over 40 years and females over 30 years. Also, the imitation effects remained detectable for longer periods in the groups closest in age to the model. The increases observed after the first and second broadcast for males aged < 30 years closely corresponded with the respective audience figures for the two showings.

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The Werther effect after television films: new evidence for an old hypothesis

1988

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“…Thus we should investigate whether the rate of attempted suicide is higher in public housing blocks. Kreitman et al (1969) suggested that a kind of social contagion might operate in attempted suicide, so that people became more likely to harm themselves if they knew someone else who, had done so. They also found that within a community, individuals who carried out attempted suicide tended to be linked by personal acquaintance with greater frequency than would be expected by chance (Kreitman et al 1970).…”

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Do weather, day of the week, and address affect the rate of attempted suicide in Hong Kong?

Chiu

1988

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Summary. In the whole year of 1986, psychiatrists saw a total of 307 attempted suicide cases presenting to a regional general hospital in Hong Kong, whether admitted or not. They were committed by 295 different people. There was no significant correlation between the number of attempts and the temperature, relative humidity, rainfall or relative duration of sunshine. Comparison with the general population revealed no evidence that suicide attempters were more likely to live in high density public housing blocks or on higher floor levels. Detailed analysis of the address of each attempter also did not support the social contagion theory of attempted suicide. Yet the suicide attempters were more likely to live in temporary structures, many inhabitants of which were new immigrants. Moreover, suicide attempts by housewives were found to reach a peak on Sundays. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…Kreitman et al (1969) constataram que as pessoas propensas ao suicídio, escolhem, para amigos, indivíduos também eles com tendências suicidas.…”

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“…Para o levantamento desta hipótese contribuiu a leitura de vários estudos (Kreitman et al, 1969;Phillips, 1974;Sacks & Eth, 1981;Brent et al, 1992;Hazell & Lewin, 1993). Antes de se proceder ao teste da questão de investigação, efectuou-se uma estatística descritiva detalhada às respostas dos dois grupos a cada item do questionário.…”

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Efeito de Werther

Almeida¹

2012

Análise Psicológica

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O formato do presente trabalho de investigação decorre da constatação comum na literatura sobre o efeito de Werther de que, apesar do progresso metodológico ter melhorado o nosso conhecimento sobre os efeitos de imitação, permanecem contraditórias e obscuras as motivações e os esquemas mentais subjacentes. Propusemo-nos, assim, elaborar uma metodologia de investigação que, não se restringindo a uma perspectiva quantitativa, permitisse também a possibilidade de uma apresentação sob uma faceta qualitativado fenómeno efeito de Werther.Paralelamente ao problema e hipótese colocados em particular, o intuito comum passou pelo levantamento exploratório das características associadas ao acontecimento do efeito de Werther. Neste contexto, foi possível abordar que a proximidade a um amigo que tenha tentado o suicídio pode eventualmente constituir um prognóstico de peso para a consequente ideação suicida. Particularmente, a nossa abordagem procura cumprir o objectivo de que a proximidade a um amigo que tenha tentado o suicídio pode encorajar a imitação em adolescentes.Assim tendo consciência da magnitude do problema do comportamento suicida imitativo nos adolescentes será possível elaborar e implementar estratégias de intervenção específicas nos indivíduos em risco com o objectivo final de prevenir grupos suicidas originados pela imitação.

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Attempted Suicide in Social Networks

Cited by 7 publications

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The Werther effect after television films: new evidence for an old hypothesis

The Werther effect after television films: new evidence for an old hypothesis

Do weather, day of the week, and address affect the rate of attempted suicide in Hong Kong?

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