Emerging Adults’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Suicide and Technology/Social Media

Keating, Sharon R.; Rudd-Arieta, Margaret

doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2021.04.010

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“…Our investigation into the values of the suicidal ideation scale across multiple social media platforms revealed no significant differences. These findings contrast with those of Keating and Rudd-Arieta [18], who identified YouTube as having the highest levels of suicidal ideation, and with those of Jasso-Medrano and López-Rosales [25], who found WhatsApp to have the lowest levels.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Furthermore, young adults who have attempted suicide are more likely to engage in suicide-related behaviour on social media, such as commenting on or sharing news about suicide or discussing personal plans to commit suicide [17]. Keating and Rudd-Arieta [18] also suggest that social media use is linked to the normalization and glorification of suicide.…”

Section: Effects Of Using Social Media and Exposure To Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Correlation between Suicidal Ideation and Addiction to Various Social Media Platforms in a Sample of Young Adults: The Benefits of Physical Activity

2023

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The rise in suicide death rates has become a major public health concern, which has led to increased addiction to internet and social media platforms. Despite the limited research available on the relationship between suicidal ideation and addiction to social media such as Instagram and TikTok, this study aims to examine this connection. The study design is cross-sectional, quantitative, comparative, and correlational, with a quasi-experimental approach. The sample includes 315 young adults aged 20 to 30 who were surveyed through the administration of the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) and the Social Media Disorder Scale-Short Form (SMDS-SF) surveys. The results showed differences in addiction levels based on the type of social media, specifically between TikTok and other social media platforms. The study found that female participants who engage in physical activity (PA) four times a week had lower levels of suicidal ideation than those who did not; there were no differences compared to male participants. This suggests that PA may be a potential strategy for preventing and reducing suicide-related phenomena. The results also indicate that addiction to social media was a statistically significant predictor of suicidal ideation, after controlling for gender and PA.

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Correlation between Suicidal Ideation and Addiction to Various Social Media Platforms in a Sample of Young Adults: The Benefits of Physical Activity

2023

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“…For example, higher levels of loneliness were reported to be associated with YouTube use [63,71] and vice versa [75]. However, there are concerns about YouTube's recommendation algorithms, which could better present safe and accurate information on suicide [66,70,72,73,83]. It may be perceived that previous systematic reviews weaken the potential originality of the current study.…”

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“…For example, YouTube may be positively useful for information seeking/sharing and mental health support [57,58,77,82]. However, there are indications that different types of YouTube use may be associated with negative mental health symptoms [31,37,73,80]. Furthermore, it is unclear how selfmanagement counters these symptoms.…”

Section: Human-computer Interaction Issues In the Use Of Youtubementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several authors have discussed the same phenomenon in the cases of Chinese Americans [60,65], BPD [67,79,81] and students [26,37,59,68,69]. Overall, there were slightly more reports on the negative mental health impacts of YouTube use [31,37,59,68,71,73,75,80] compared with the positive impacts [24,57,58,67,69,77], although some studies reported on both positive and negative impacts [26,32,82]. There was a gen-eral lack of conclusive findings on whether there is more of a negative or positive mental health impact.…”

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The Impact of YouTube on Loneliness and Mental Health

Balcombe

Leo

2023

Informatics

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There are positives and negatives of using YouTube in terms of loneliness and mental health. YouTube’s streaming content is an amazing resource, however, there may be bias or errors in its recommendation algorithms. Parasocial relationships can also complicate the impact of YouTube use. Intervention may be necessary when problematic and risky content is associated with unhealthy behaviors and negative impacts on mental health. Children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable. Although YouTube might assist in connecting with peers, there are privacy, safety, and quality issues to consider. This paper is an integrative review of the positive and negative impacts of YouTube with the aim to inform the design and development of a technology-based intervention to improve mental health. The impact of YouTube use on loneliness and mental health was explored by synthesizing a purposive selection (n = 32) of the empirical and theoretical literature. Next, we explored human–computer interaction issues and proposed a concept whereby an independent-of-YouTube algorithmic recommendation system steers users toward verified positive mental health content or promotions.

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Mental health promotion and suicide prevention in emerging adulthood: importance of psychoeducational interventions in University students

Pérez-Marín,

Lacomba-Trejo,

Giménez-Benavent

et al. 2024

Curr Psychol

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Emerging adulthood is a stage that involves significant changes in emotional, social, academic, and work domains, which can often lead to high levels of stress and mental health challenges. The purpose of this study is to explore the potential benefits of an online intervention program that is based on mental health psychoeducation and suicide risk prevention for emerging adults who are studying at university. A psychoeducational intervention was conducted with 567 participants, of whom 82.2% were female, aged between 18 and 29 years (M = 20.31; SD = 2.089). The study examines the intervention’s direct impact on adaptive knowledge of suicide risk and mental health, as well as its indirect effect on mental health indicators. The results showed that after the intervention, participants exhibited reduced stigma associated with mental health and suicide, improved knowledge, and more adaptive attitudes towards suicide. Significant changes were observed in various psychological variables, including self-esteem, resilience, emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, stress, and suicide risk, in the expected direction. These findings suggest that integrating psychoeducational interventions and suicide prevention programs into university curricula could promote mental well-being and address suicide risk among emerging adult students.

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Emerging Adults’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Suicide and Technology/Social Media

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Correlation between Suicidal Ideation and Addiction to Various Social Media Platforms in a Sample of Young Adults: The Benefits of Physical Activity

Correlation between Suicidal Ideation and Addiction to Various Social Media Platforms in a Sample of Young Adults: The Benefits of Physical Activity

The Impact of YouTube on Loneliness and Mental Health

Mental health promotion and suicide prevention in emerging adulthood: importance of psychoeducational interventions in University students

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