This document discusses research on the relationship between media exposure to suicide and youth imitation behaviors. It finds that exposure to suicide in various media forms, such as news reports, television shows, films and music lyrics, is correlated with increased youth suicide rates. However, most studies are narrative in nature and cannot determine causation. The document recommends further research that distinguishes between the effects of media exposure and preexisting suicidal tendencies.
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This is a presentation for the topic 'Teenage Suicide'. Topics covered in this presentation are :
i. What is Suicide?
ii. How is Self Injury different from Suicide
iii. Causes of Suicide (short clip)
iv. Protection against Suicide
v. Suicide Risk Factors
vi. Suicide Warning Signs
vii. Involvement/Role of School
viii. Postvention after suicide
ix. Steps Parents and Teens can take
Proposed Study
Alexander Wenceslao, Briahna Pitts, Shaina Clasberry, Elbert Johnson, and Edith Zamora
January 18, 2016
PSY/ 335
Dr. Nancy Lees
Summary
Suicide is a national risk to all ages, both attempted and completed suicides. Suicidal behavior is able to be influenced by many factors that are both internal and external. While external factors such as the media may pose as an influence, internal factors such as genetics or situational stress may pose as influences as well. A new study that the group would create to answer the remaining unanswered questions would be to incorporate as many individuals as possible with a mass survey. The individuals that the survey targets would be those who are currently experiencing suicide related situations or have experienced suicidal situations in the past. Also, this survey would be inclusive to ask questions about what the causes are for the individuals to contemplate suicide. The external factors outside of the targeted group, the survey would be the media and its effect on suicidal influence, benefactors of the suicidal community, and those related to the suicidal individuals. To ensure gaining questions to remaining unanswered questions, the survey can ask questions concerning the external factors.
Our group would set out to answer the following research question: “Is it possible to prevent suicidal influences by taking preemptive measures?” The hypothesis would be if it is possible to prevent suicidal influences, then the preemptive measures could be implemented across all demographics—thus decreasing national suicide rates.
Suicide risk in relation to socioeconomic, demographic, psychiatric, and familial factors: A national register-based study of all suicides in denmark
Abstract. Suicide risk was addressed in relation to the joint effect of factors regarding family structure, socioeconomics, demographics, mental illness, and family history of suicide and mental illness, as well as gender differences in risk factors. Method: Data were drawn from four national Danish longitudinal registers. Subjects were all 21,169 persons who committed suicide in 1981-1997 and 423,128 live comparison subjects matched for age, gender, and calendar time of suicide by using a nested case-control design. The effect of risk factors was estimated through conditional logistic regression. The interaction of gender with the risk factors was examined by using the log likelihood ratio test. The population attributable risk was calculated. Results: Of the risk factors examined in the study, a history of hospitalization for psychiatric disorder was associated with the highest odds ratio and the highest attributable risk for suicide. Cohabiting or single marital status, unemployment, low income, retirement, disability, sickness-related absence from work, and a family history of suicide and/or psychiatric disorders were also significant risk factors for suicide. Moreover, these factors had different effects in male and fe ...
Impact of Suicide on People Exposed to a FatalityFranklin Cook
"Impact of Suicide on People Exposed to a Fatality" is excerpted and adapted from Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines (2015), by the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force (bit.ly/sosl-taskforce) of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. The original document is available free for download at bit.ly/respondingsuicide.
This summary report concludes that:
The research delineated above represents the solid and growing body of evidence that, for a significant number of people exposed to the suicide fatality or attempt of another person, there are long-term, harmful mental health consequences. Shneidman’s declaration (1972) that postvention is prevention for the next generation is unquestionably supported by clear and overwhelming evidence that exposure to the suicide of another person, particularly of a close intimate, elevates the risk of suicidal behavior and of death by suicide in the population of people exposed.
The Grief After Suicide blog post related to this essay is http://bit.ly/impactessay.
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This is the fi rst in a Series
of three papers about suicide
Centre for Suicide Research,
University Department of
Psychiatry, University of
Oxford, Oxford, UK
(Prof K Hawton DSc,
K E A Saunders MRCPsych); and
Suicidal Behaviour Research
Group, School of Natural
Sciences, Stirling University,
Stirling, Scotland
(Prof R C O’Connor PhD)
Correspondence to:
Prof Keith Hawton, Centre for
Suicide Research, University
Department of Psychiatry,
Warneford Hospital,
Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
[email protected]
Suicide 1
Self-harm and suicide in adolescents
Keith Hawton, Kate E A Saunders, Rory C O’Connor
Self-harm and suicide are major public health problems in adolescents, with rates of self-harm being high in the teenage
years and suicide being the second most common cause of death in young people worldwide. Important contributors to
self-harm and suicide include genetic vulnerability and psychiatric, psychological, familial, social, and cultural factors.
The eff ects of media and contagion are also important, with the internet having an important contemporary role.
Prevention of self-harm and suicide needs both universal measures aimed at young people in general and targeted
initiatives focused on high-risk groups. There is little evidence of eff ectiveness of either psychosocial or pharmacological
treatment, with particular controversy surrounding the usefulness of antidepressants. Restriction of access to means for
suicide is important. Major challenges include the development of greater understanding of the factors that contribute
to self-harm and suicide in young people, especially mechanisms underlying contagion and the eff ect of new media.
The identifi cation of successful prevention initiatives aimed at young people and those at especially high risk, and the
establishment of eff ective treatments for those who self-harm, are paramount needs.
Introduction
Adolescent self-harm is a major public health concern.
Although suicide is uncommon in adolescents compared
with non-fatal self-harm, it is always a tragic outcome, and
prevention of suicide in young people is under standably a
focus of national strategies for suicide prevention. In this
paper, we discuss self-harm and suicide in adolescents in
terms of epidemiology (especially international diff er-
ences); developmental aspects of self-harm, including
short-term and long-term outcomes; factors that contribute
to the behaviour; and treatment and prevention. This is a
selective paper directed at any professional with an interest
in adolescent suicide and self-harm. We have two aims: to
provide a synthesis of the evidence for adolescent self-
harm and suicide and to identify key areas of uncertainty.
Only a small proportion of individuals who self-harm
present to hospitals, meaning that this behaviou.
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Media’s influence on aggression
Research Methods | PSY302 A01
Dr. Yvonne Bustamante
Argosy University
Tony Williams
9 May 2015
Media’s influence on aggression
Aggressiveness can be caused by media. Anderson et al (2003: p4), explain that the effects of violent media have much been consecutively demonstrated. On the other hand, other scholars (Freedman, 2002; Olson, 2004: p28) explain that media violence research field has been mismanaged, and that they show weak and inconsistent results. Besides, they exhibit poor measures of aggression. H1: The media influences the violence or aggression of adolescents and young adults due to ignorance of the measures that should be taken to avoid the same. Research shows that fictional television and film violence contribute to increase in aggression and violence in young viewers.
Aggressiveness may be measured as short term or long term.an example of a short term behavior is mimicry. On the other hand, a person that does behavior out of their conscious awareness experiences a long term effect of aggressiveness since the long term one is linked to the brain.
In this essay, I shall look at how media influences aggression of the youth and children. Some notable changes in the recent are the advent and saturation of mass media. In this century media like radio, television, and internet and others like movies, videos, video games, and computer networks have assumed central roles in our daily lives. Exposure to violence on media increases the risk of violent behavior on the viewer’s part. The highest percent of youths who are aggressive and exhibit antisocial behavior do not grow up to become violent. Still, research has shown that aggressive children may grow up to be aggressive adults and aggressive adults were as aggressive while young.
First, television and films is the threshold of aggressiveness and violence in youths and children. Violent content is more prominent to these prominent media in our modern life.George and Helm (1991) came up to a conclusion after research that children in the United States spend an average of between three and four hours per day viewing television. This is a high percentage compared to the time they would use in other useful activities. Josephson assigned 396 kids to watch either a violent or a nonviolent film before they played a game of floor hockey in school to create an example of violent behavior in young children. The outcome was that they were aggressive while playing hockey (Josephson, 1987: p53). This example shows that exposing violent material to young people increases their chances of behaving violently afterwards.
Similar effects of aggressiveness are observed among older adolescents and young adults. Violent clips make them more aggressive compared to the nonviolent clips (Jones, 1995: p69). An experiment testing the agg ...
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Research Proposal
Jamie Bass
Argosy University
March 3, 2016
ABSTRACT
Suicide is experienced in all parts of parts of the world. Even though it has been argued that suicide is common amongst the elderly in the society, it is worth noting that even children as young as 13 years old have committed suicide. The myths and misconceptions surrounding suicidal individuals are inherently different from one culture to another. For instance, in some cultures it is believed that suicidal individuals are possessed by demons. Other cultures attribute suicide to generational curses whereas other cultures attribute suicide to such factors as depression and other mental disorders. The purpose of the proposed research is to establish the risk factors of suicide and realize possible strategies which if undertaken can help to counteract suicide and hence its adverse effects in the society. In this proposal are the points to be addressed in the course of the research. It is anticipated that there will be objections to the factors to be established and hence part of this proposal are possible objections and how each of the possible objections will be addressed. The research will use secondary sources of information and hence part of this proposal is an annotated bibliography of the sources that will be utilized in course of the research. Comment by Spencer Ellsworth: This is good, but could you state it more as a piece of argumentation? Like “This paper argues that early intervention can prevent suicide if done correctly.”
WORKING THESIS
Suicide has negatively affected the society, and unless there are mitigation strategies to curb this menace, it will continue to take the lives of many people in the society.
EXPLANATION
Suicide is the act of human beings voluntarily taking their lives. Research has shown that it has always been caused by a sense of despair or hopelessness. All these issues may be induced by mental illness which may include Bipolar disorder or even depression. Suicide has been traumatizing and shameful to the bereaved families and many people in the society have always viewed it as a cowardice way of taking one’s life. Many suicidal persons have been haunted by their thoughts in many cases this is depicted as a very personal process (Goldsmith, Pellmar, Kleinman & Bunney, 2002).
In this paper, it is very much possible to look at what suicide is and the risk factors associated with suicide. A study conducted in Sweden consisting of 271 men aged 15 years and above revealed that mental disorder is a major suicide risk factor. It is thus recommended that the research paper will dwell on mental disorder and substance abuse as risk factors that contribute to suicide as well as medical conditions and psychosocial states. Harris & Barraclough (2009) also established a causal relationship between mental disorder and suicide a factor that further makes the proposed research ...
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Violence in the Media
Michelle Jose
Argosy University
March 19, 2015
Detailed Outline
a) Introduction
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Research Question: What is the relationship between level of exposure to the media and level of aggression in children between the ages 8-18?
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Implications: There have been accounted for instances of fierce animosity amongst the adolescent credited to TV chivalry and villainy.
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Hypothesis: There is a positive correlation to between level of exporsure to media and level of aggression in children between the ages of 8-18.
b) Literature Review
i. Chomsky, Noam & Herman, Edward (1988, 2002), stated that Assembling Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon", as the most persuasive wellspring of social power, the media has a remarkable power in molding observations, state of mind, and practices.
ii. Durham, M. & Kellner, D. (2001), Media and Cultural Studies. UK: Blackwell Publishing. This publication has been studied in depth for years. It studies and analyzes the indicators of forceful conduct incorporate maxims, enthusiastic separation, and uninvolved forceful direct and in addition open presentations of roughness.
iii. In the article by Gauntlet, D. (2005). Moving Experiences: Media Effects and Beyond. London: John Libby and other social therapists have affirmed that there is in fact a relationship between brutal media and forceful propensities, particularly in children.
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Methodology is Probability Sampling
d)
Conclusion
Violence in the Media
The agreement is currently consistent that presentation to roughness in the media makes a brutal inclination in children (Chomsky, 2002). Investigators have associated media mercilessness to the improvement of mighty thoughts, emotions and behavior amongst people. How do the media sway hostility among young people? Late studies exhibit that young people who spent a huge part of their times playing severe gimmick amusements, review harsh films or introduced to distinctive signs of savage media normally add to a modified mental inclination to copy the behavior of their clear VIP great cases.
Writing Review
In the expressions of prestigious researcher Karl Marx, the media is the true wellspring of social power in the general public. Resounding the same, later sociologists agree that individuals have a tendency to venerate and love media identities, particularly the anecdotal film characters (Durham & Kellner, 2001). This sort of recognition has made the media exceptionally powerful in the development of musings, characters, and conduct. A percentage of the pointers of this impact incorporate copycat conduct in manifestation of dialect, mentality, and discernments. This can be seen in many research studies and in current media as well.
Social investigator Maya Clair elucidates that savage media effects extend from the transient to the whole deal inferring that presentation to media unpleasantn.
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Research on the Effects of Media Violence
Whether or not exposure to media violence causes increased levels of aggression and violence in young people is the perennial question of media effects research. Some experts, like University of Michigan professor L. Rowell Huesmann, argue that fifty years of evidence show "that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively and affects them as adults years later." Others, like Jonathan Freedman of the University of Toronto, maintain that "the scientific evidence simply does not show that watching violence either produces violence in people, or desensitizes them to it."
Many Studies, Many Conclusions
Andrea Martinez at the University of Ottawa conducted a comprehensive review of the scientific literature for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1994. She concluded that the lack of consensus about media effects reflects three "grey areas" or constraints contained in the research itself.
First, media violence is notoriously hard to define and measure. Some experts who track violence in television programming, such as George Gerbner of Temple University, define violence as the act (or threat) of injuring or killing someone, independent of the method used or the surrounding context. Accordingly, Gerber includes cartoon violence in his data-set. But others, such as University of Laval professors Guy Paquette and Jacques de Guise, specifically exclude cartoon violence from their research because of its comical and unrealistic presentation.
Second, researchers disagree over the type of relationship the data supports. Some argue that exposure to media violence causes aggression. Others say that the two are associated, but that there is no causal connection. (That both, for instance, may be caused by some third factor.) And others say the data supports the conclusion that there is no relationship between the two at all.
Third, even those who agree that there is a connection between media violence and aggression disagree about how the one effects the other. Some say that the mechanism is a psychological one, rooted in the ways we learn. For example, Huesmann argues that children develop "cognitive scripts" that guide their own behaviour by imitating the actions of media heroes. As they watch violent shows, children learn to internalize scripts that use violence as an appropriate method of problem-solving.
Other researchers argue that it is the physiological effects of media violence that cause aggressive behaviour. Exposure to violent imagery is linked to increased heart rate, faster respiration and higher blood pressure. Some think that this simulated "fight-or-flight" response predisposes people to act aggressively in the real world.
Still others focus on the ways in which media violence primes or cues pre-existing aggressive thoughts and feelings. They argue that an individual’s desire to strike out is justified by media images in which both ...
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Research Proposal
Jamie Bass
Composition II Comment by Spencer Ellsworth: Actually Comment by Jamie Bass:
ENG102 A02
Instructor: Ellsworth
February 16, 2016
WORKING THESIS
Suicide has negatively affected the society, and unless there are mitigation strategies to curb this menace, it will continue to take the lives of many people in the society.Comment by Spencer Ellsworth: This is a good subject, but the thesis needs a little work. “Mitigation” is really generalized. Maybe more like “early intervention and general support are needed to help
EXPLANATION
Suicide is the act of human beings voluntarily taking their lives. Research has shown that it has always been caused by a sense of despair or hopelessness. All these issues may be induced by mental illness which may include Bipolar disorder or even depression. Suicide has been traumatizing and shameful to the bereaved families and many people in the society have always viewed it as a cowardice cowardly way of taking one’s life. Many suicidal persons have been haunted by their thoughts. I in many cases this is depicted as a very personal process (Goldsmith, Pellmar, Kleinman & Bunney, 2002).Comment by Spencer Ellsworh: Citations for this. Also, maybe consider that it is often an outgrowth of chronic disease or chronic pain.
In this paper, it is very much possible to look at what suicide is and the risk factors associated with suicide. It is also recommended in the research paper to dwell on mental disorder and substance abuse as risk factors that contribute to suicide as well as medical conditions and psychosocial states. The media and how it depicts suicide is also very important to research on as well as the rational suicide is a controversial statement in this topic. We will have the chance to look at the suicide methods and pathophysiology which is very important to note. After all these, prevention will be a key topic to note which involves screening for mental illness. It will also be possible to research on epidemiology, social and culture based on legislation and religious views and all about philosophy, advocacy, locations and some notable cases of suicide.Comment by Spencer Ellsworh: Fairly awkward sentence.Comment by Spencer Ellsworh: To make a good argumentation paper, you’ll have to focus on where intervention is failing right now, and how intervention can work more effectively. It’ll make for a great paper, but it’ll involve some legwork with current practices and funding of mental health intervention by federal and state governments.
SUB POINTS
Many people in the society are very much scared of taking away their lives and they are actually left to wonder how one can voluntarily manage to be suicidal. Some may be caused by illnesses with some visible symptoms and various ways to mitigate this act is by careful observation of these people. People in high risk of committing suicide often have mood disorders and .
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1. MEDIA AND YOUTH SUICIDE
Eileen Miskovitch
October 22, 2011
PSY492
2. Abstract
Research regarding the way violence in the media affects youth behavior
is abundant. However, there is a scarcity of research concerning
whether media violence, suicide, in particular, has an impact on
imitative youth behavior. Many forms of media depict suicidal behavior
and youth are gaining more accessibility to this media. The media forms
that will be discussed are: nonfictional stories of suicide, television
portrayal of suicide, and music.
3. Overview
The third leading cause of death for youth between the ages of 10-24
is suicide, which results in approximately 4400 lives lost each year
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009).
The risk of suicide after media exposure to suicide, in particular, the
exposure of another individual’s suicide was 2 to 4 times higher among
15-19 years olds than other age groups ( Gould, Wallenstein, Kleinman,
O’Carroll, & Mercy ,1990).
According to population statistics, suicide media publicity results in a
small but significant increase in the number of people who die by suicide
following the publicized event (Mishara &Weisstub, 2007)
4. Overview cont.
Narrative research regarding media and suicide coverage has
generally concluded that there is a relationship between media
coverage of suicide and an enhanced suicidal behavior in society
(Stack, 2005).
Because youth have more access to the high levels of growing
technology in society, it is important to discover whether or not the
media has an impact on youth imitative suicide. behavior.
5. Nonfictional Stories
Research has shown that publicized suicide of well known figures
may have an impact on “copycat” behavior.
According to Gould, Jamieson, and Romer (2003) studies based on
real stories about suicide were 14.3 times more likely to find imitation
effects
In a quantitative analysis of 293 findings from 42 studies Stack
(2005) found that studies which assessed the suicide of an entertainer
or popular political figure were 14.3 times more likely to find a relation
to imitative effects than studies that did not involve these types of
persons.
Stack (2005) also conducted narrative reviews on imitative suicide
behavior and indicated that 269/419 findings or 62.2% reported the
absence of an imitative effect.
6. Television
In a study of four made-for-television films, , discussed by Berman
(1988), in 1986 Gould and Schaffer discovered that 2 weeks after the
broadcast of three of the films which portrayed suicide, there was a
significant increase in suicide attempts by teenagers after the films
were released rather than before.
Marjorie J. Hogan MD. (205, p. 260) states “Attractive, powerful,
charismatic perpetrators of violence encourage young viewers to
imitate their roles and behaviors”.
Berman (1988) concluded that film presentations of suicide may
introduce a model of suicide, which if viewed by a person
predisposed to suicide, can provide a final solution.
7. Music
According to Rustad, Small, Jobes, Safer, and Peterson (2003),
adolescents in the United States alone listen to approximately four hours
of music a day, and purchase close to 70% of popular music recordings.
Although the number of hours spent listening to music by youth seems
rather high, there has been little research conducted regarding the actual
impact of suicide-expressive lyrics on the feelings, thoughts, attitudes, or
perceptions youth have to these lyrics (Rustad, et al., 2003).
In a review of heavy metal music and its subculture, Stack, Gundlach
and Reeves (1994) concluded that the lyrics of heavy metal music are not
the immediate cause of suicidal behavior, but because the lyrics are
being heard by an adolescent who may be having family, school,
substance abuse or other problems, the adolescent may be at a
moderate or high risk for suicide.
8. Summary of Literature Review
There my be a correlation between exposure to suicide in the media
and youth suicide imitation behavior.
The act of imitating suicide witnessed in the media tends to increase
after highly publicized acts.
Youth who are impacted by media exposure are generally predisposed
to suicidal thoughts and or behavior.
Youth who imitate suicide tend to have mental illness such as
depression or mood disorders, use drugs or alcohol, or are victims of
social labeling or abuse.
9. Summary of Literature Review cont.
Most of the research conducted on the topic of youth suicide and
media exposure has involved narrative research.
Narrative research data is difficult to generalize to the population so
there is no definite answer whether or not media exposure to acts of
suicide cause imitation behavior in youths.
Research shows a correlation between exposure of violent acts in the
media and a rise in imitation behavior but cannot determine causation.
10. Recommendation for Future Research
More research regarding the effects of violent acts in the media
needs to be conducted.
Conduct research to determine how many youth that attempt or
commit suicide were predisposed to suicidal thoughts and tendencies
before witnessing a publicized act of suicide.
Find information to help determine whether it is the exposure to
media or the predisposition that leads to acts of suicide.
11. References
Berman, A. L. (1988). Fictional depiction of suicide in television films and imitation effects.
The American Journal of Psychiatry, 145(8), 982-982-6. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/220463281?accountid=34899
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009). Suicide prevention: Youth suicide.
Retrieved from www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pub/youth_suicide.html
Gould, M., Jamieson, P., & Romer, D. (2003). Media contagion and suicide among the
young. The American Behavioral Scientist, 46(9), 1269-1269-1284. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/214758170?accountid=34899
Gould, M., Wallenstein, S., Kleinman, M., O’Carroll, P., & Mercy, J. Suicide clusters: An
examination of age-specific effects. American Journal of Public Health, 80, 211-212
Hogan, M. J. (2005). Adolescents and media violence: Six crucial issues for practitioners.
Adolescent Medicine Clinics, 16(2), 249-249-68, vii. Retrieved from
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12. References cont.
Mishara, B. L., & Weisstub, D. N. (2007). Ethical, legal, and practical issues in the
control and regulation of suicide promotion and assistance over the internet. Suicide
& Life - Threatening Behavior, 37(1), 58-58-65. Retrieved from
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Rustad, R. A., Small, J. E., Jobes, D. A., Safer, M. A., & Peterson, R. J. (2003). The
impact of rock videos and music with suicidal content on thoughts and attitudes
about suicide.
Stack, S. (2005). Suicide in the media: A quantitative review of studies based on
nonfictional stories. Suicide & Life - Threatening Behavior, 35(2), 121-121-33.
Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/224884850?accountid=34899
Stack, S., Gundlach, J., & Reeves, J. L. (1994). The heavy metal subculture and suicide.
Suicide & Life - Threatening Behavior, 24(1), 15-15-23. Retrieved from
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Editor's Notes
PSY492Mary ViventiArgosy University
Youth suicide continues to be a problem in today’s society. With the growth of internet sites, music, television, video games, and even news broadcasting, violence such as suicide can be seen or heard by anyone who has access to these forms of media. Because youth have more access to the high levels of growing technology in society, it is important to discover whether or not the media has an impact on youth suicide.
Acts of suicide are discussed in many different forms of media. The news, reports acts of suicide by important or famous public figures, internet sites have chat rooms for people contemplating suicide, and television and music portray and discuss suicide.
True stories of suicide are also discussed in the media. The news, reports acts of suicide by important or famous public figures, internet sites have chat rooms for people contemplating suicide, and television and music portray and discuss suicide. These modes of exposure to suicide are available to anyone who has access to the media. The publicized stories regarding suicide are usually concerned with important or famous persons. Some research suggests that imitation effects rise after a publicized suicide of a famous or important person, other studies found no effect
Suicide is one of the violent behaviors that can be seen through televised programming and more research needs to be conducted regarding its affect on our youth. The question regarding the imitation behavior viewed on television is whether it is the portrayal of the act itself or the famous person portraying the act.
Lyrics such as“Jeremy” by Pearl Jam or “Stan” by Eminem discuss suicide. These lyrics are heard by many young people, which have lead to a rise in concern regarding whether or not the lyrics of songs and the videos that accompany them, have an influence on the way youth behave.
There has not been enough research to determine if the exposure to suicide in the media has an actual affect on suicide imitative behavior in youth. Predisposition is discussed in each piece of literature reviewed.