Copycat Suicide Induced by Entertainment Celebrity Suicides in South Korea

Jang, Soo Ah; Sung, Ji Min; Park, Jin Young; Jeon, Woo Taek

doi:10.4306/pi.2016.13.1.74

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“…Using data from a national population-based database in South Korea, the authors found that younger females are more likely to commit suicide following a celebrity suicide than other age and sex subgroups, and Jang et al . reported a similar result 19 . Park et al .…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Males did not exhibit as clear a pattern as females (Fig. 3c,d) 19,22,25–27 . The greater vulnerability of females to copycat suicide may be explained by sex differences in psychopathological vulnerability.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Previous studies that compared the copycat suicide effect between same-sex and opposite-sex celebrities found that the same-sex subgroup was more vulnerable than the opposite-sex subgroup 19,22,25,26 . However, one study found that the same-sex effect on copycat suicide was unclear 27 .…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The conjecture that copycat suicide is more likely when the celebrity and the person who commits copycat suicide are of similar age has been explored in previous studies 19,22,25,26,34–37 . Stack proposed in a differential identification model of copycat suicide that imitative suicidal behaviour is more prevalent in people sharing similar social characteristics and showed that being of similar age with the person committing suicide was a risk factor for copycat suicide 38 .…”

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Age and sex subgroups vulnerable to copycat suicide: evaluation of nationwide data in South Korea

Hwang

Bae

et al. 2019

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Media reports of a celebrity’s suicide may be followed by copycat suicides, and the impact may vary in different age and sex subgroups. We proposed a quantitative framework to assess the vulnerability of age and sex subgroups to copycat suicide and used this method to investigate copycat suicides in relation to the suicides of 10 celebrities in South Korea from 1993 to 2013. By applying a detrending model to control for annual and seasonal fluctuations, we estimated the expected number of suicides within a copycat suicide period. The copycat effect was assessed in two ways: the magnitude of copycat suicide by dividing the observed by the expected number of suicides, and the mortality rate by subtracting the expected from the observed number of suicides. Females aged 20–29 years were the most vulnerable subgroup according to both the magnitude of the copycat effect (2.31-fold increase over baseline) and the mortality rate from copycat suicide (22.7-increase). Males aged 50–59 years were the second most vulnerable subgroup according to the copycat suicide mortality rate (20.5- increase). We hope that the proposed quantitative framework will be used to identify vulnerable subgroups to copycat effect, thereby helping devise strategies for prevention.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

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confidence: 95%

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Age and sex subgroups vulnerable to copycat suicide: evaluation of nationwide data in South Korea

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Bae

et al. 2019

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“…The negative impact of exposure to atrocities on mental health is well documented, from trauma and-stress related disorders, to the level of copycat suicides [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. The exposure to traumatic events through media alone is sufficient to cause psychological distress or even stress-related disorders [ 10 ].…”

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Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides in the General Aviation Increased for One-Year Period after 11 September 2001 Attack in the United States

Vuorio

Laukkala²,

Junttila

et al. 2018

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Pilot aircraft-assisted suicides (AAS) are rare, and there is limited understanding of copycat phenomenon among aviators. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible effect the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks had on pilot AASs in the U.S. Fatal aviation accidents in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database were searched using the following search words: “suicide”, “murder-suicide” and “homicide-suicide”. The timeline between 11 September 1996, and 11 September 2004, was analyzed. Only those accidents in which NTSB judged that the cause of the accident was suicide were included in the final analysis. The relative risk (RR) of the pilot AASs in all fatal accidents in the U.S. was calculated in order to compare the one, two, and three-year periods after the September 11 terrorist attacks with five years preceding the event. The RR of a fatal general aviation aircraft accident being due to pilot suicide was 3.68-fold (95% confidence interval 1.04–12.98) during the first year after 11 September 2001, but there was not a statistically significant increase in the later years. This study showed an association, albeit not determinate causal effect, of a very specific series of simultaneous terrorist murder-suicides with subsequent pilot AASs.

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Effects of catastrophic financial loss on suicide risk: evidence from Korean stock market crash in October 2008

Kim

Park

et al. 2021

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose The negative effect of catastrophic financial loss on suicide risk is widely perceived but hardly studied in-depth because of various difficulties in designing studies. We empirically investigated the effect utilizing the stock market crash event in October 2008 in South Korea. Methods We extracted stock market investor data from Korea Exchanges, and mortality data from Microdata Integrated Service of individuals aged 30-60 years. We calculated age-standardized monthly suicide rate per 100,000 persons according to sex and age, and developed intervention analysis with multiplicative seasonal ARIMA model to isolate the effect of the stock market crash on suicide rate. Results More than 11% of people aged 30-60 years were directly investing in stocks during stock market crash. In October 2008, both KOSPI and KOSDAQ indexes dropped by 22.67% and 30.14%, respectively. In November 2008, the suicide rate in males 30-60 years increased by > 40% compared to the expected levels if there had been no market crash, and in females aged 30-40 and 40-50 years, it increased by 101.84% and 74.81%, respectively. The effect appeared to persist in males, whereas it degenerated with time in females during our sampling period. Suicide was more pronounced in younger age groups and females. Conclusion In this first in-depth study, the effect of catastrophic financial loss negatively affects suicide risk for an extended period, indicating health and financial authorities should provide a long-term financial and psychological support for people with extreme financial loss.

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Copycat Suicide Induced by Entertainment Celebrity Suicides in South Korea

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References 27 publications

Age and sex subgroups vulnerable to copycat suicide: evaluation of nationwide data in South Korea

Age and sex subgroups vulnerable to copycat suicide: evaluation of nationwide data in South Korea

Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides in the General Aviation Increased for One-Year Period after 11 September 2001 Attack in the United States

Effects of catastrophic financial loss on suicide risk: evidence from Korean stock market crash in October 2008

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