Influence of humor expression on suicidal ideation among adolescents: mediating effects of depressive emotion and positive emotion

Lee, Chun-Yang; Chiang, Yi-Chen; An, Li; Wu, Yao‐Ting; Lin, Yu-Jung; Zhao, Yuchen; Zhang, Xiaoke

doi:10.1186/s12888-020-02814-7

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“…Some studies have suggested that the use of humor can be a healthy tool for coping with life stress (Abel, 2002). In keeping with these competing issues, humor has been found to be both negatively and positively associated with suicidal ideation depending on the effect that it elicits (Lee et al, 2020). Further research is needed on the impact of humor and flippant messaging both on suicidality in general and on social media in particular.…”

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Differences in Suicide-Related Twitter Content According to User Influence

Sinyor

Hartman

Zaheer

et al. 2023

Crisis

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Background: The content of suicide-specific social media posts may impact suicide rates, and putatively harmful and/or protective content may vary by the author’s influence. Aims: This study sought to characterize how suicide-related Twitter content differs according to user influence. Method: Suicide-related tweets from July 1, 2015, to June 1, 2016, geolocated to Toronto, Canada, were collected and randomly selected for coding (n = 2,250) across low, medium, or high user influence levels (based on the number of followers, tweets, retweets, and posting frequency). Logistic regression was used to identify differences by user influence for various content variables. Results: Low- and medium-influence users typically tweeted about personal experiences with suicide and associations with mental health and shared morbid humor/flippant tweets. High-influence users tended to tweet about suicide clusters, suicide in youth, older adults, indigenous people, suicide attempts, and specific methods. Tweets across influence levels predominantly focused on suicide deaths, and few described suicidal ideation or included helpful content. Limitations: Social media data were from a single location and epoch. Conclusion: This study demonstrated more problematic content vis-à-vis safe suicide messaging in tweets by high-influence users and a paucity of protective content across all users. These results highlight the need for further research and potential intervention.

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Differences in Suicide-Related Twitter Content According to User Influence

Sinyor

Hartman

Zaheer

et al. 2023

Crisis

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“…Interestingly, results of the supplementary subgroup analysis suggest that risk preference does not play a regulatory role in the first three text characteristics, thereby verifying that teenager students may express strong preference for numbers, symbols, and positive emotional characteristics. This finding may be ascribed to the adolescents’ constant use of symbols and numbers ( Ji et al, 2017 ), and positive emotions usually have a positive impact on adolescents ( Lee et al, 2020 ). By contrast, among the characteristics of emotional conflict not found preference at present, results of the subgroup analysis show that students who prefer having no emotional conflict in the text showed the characteristics of risk avoidance, or lower grades, or rural or school accommodation ( p < 0.05).…”

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Textual Features and Risk Preference Effects on Mental Health Education Among Teenager Students in Chongqing, China

Jiang

Zhang

Kang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundMental health is a public health problem of great concern. Previous studies show that textual features and individual psychological characteristics can influence the effect of receiving information.PurposeThis study explores whether textual features influence the persuasiveness of teenager students’ mental health education while considering the influence of risk preference.MethodsFrom November to December 2021, a cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,869 teenager students in grade 7–12 in Chongqing, China. Wilcoxon signed-rank test, multiple logistic regression, and subgroup analysis were used to analyze the data.ResultsAmong the four textual features mentioned in this study, a significant difference was reported in the persuasive effects of information with and without numerical features (p < 0.001), and such information tended to include digital features. The result for the symbolic features (p < 0.001) was consistent with the numerical features. The persuasive effects of positive and negative emotional information significantly differed (p < 0.001), with the former showing a better performance. No significant differences were observed between the persuasive effects of information with and without emotional conflicts (p > 0.05). Combined with those from the risk preference analysis, results showed that the regulatory effect of risk preference was only reflected in emotional conflicts. Students who prefer having no emotional conflict in the text showed the characteristics of risk avoidance, or lower grades, or rural or school accommodation. Most teenager students are also risk averse, especially females (or = 2.223, 95%CI:1.755–2.815) and juniors (or = 1.533, 95%CI: 1.198–1.963).ConclusionThe numbers, symbols, and positive emotions in the text generate an active effect on teenager students receiving mental health education. Students avoiding risk are inclined to read texts without emotional conflicts. The probability of male choosing texts with positive emotional polarity is 33.5% lower than that of female. Female students and those from lower grades also demonstrate a higher inclination to risk avoidance compared with their male and higher grade counterparts. Therefore, educational materials with different text characteristics should be developed for teenager students with varying characteristics.

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“…Studies have shown that the type of humor style expressed could determine the kind of effect experienced. Lee et al tested the mediating roles of depressive symptoms in adolescents' humor expression and suicidal ideations [ 20 ]. The cross-sectional study found that adolescents who consistently used negative humor like 'self-deprecation' (modesty about or criticism of oneself) experienced more depressive emotions and suicidal ideations [ 20 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Lee et al tested the mediating roles of depressive symptoms in adolescents' humor expression and suicidal ideations [ 20 ]. The cross-sectional study found that adolescents who consistently used negative humor like 'self-deprecation' (modesty about or criticism of oneself) experienced more depressive emotions and suicidal ideations [ 20 ]. At the same time, other types of negative humor like 'other-devaluing' (emphasizing other people's flaws or negative qualities) resulted in less suicidal ideation [ 20 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The cross-sectional study found that adolescents who consistently used negative humor like 'self-deprecation' (modesty about or criticism of oneself) experienced more depressive emotions and suicidal ideations [ 20 ]. At the same time, other types of negative humor like 'other-devaluing' (emphasizing other people's flaws or negative qualities) resulted in less suicidal ideation [ 20 ]. This is explained by the 'superiority theory,' which could be traced back to Plato and Aristotle several centuries ago, stating that humor and laughter express feelings of superiority over other people's weaknesses [ 21 ].…”

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A Comprehensive Review on the Effects of Humor in Patients With Depression

Ayisire¹,

Babalola²,

Aladum³

et al. 2022

Cureus

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Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. Although there are known, effective treatments for depression, people in low-and middle-income areas experience multiple barriers which limit their ability to receive adequate treatment. Some known barriers to effective care include a lack of resources, lack of trained healthcare providers, and social stigma associated with mental disorders and this creates gaps in mental health care and the need for more treatment modalities and adjuvant therapies to address these gaps. This review article was conducted using the scale for the assessment of non-systematic review articles (SANRA). We searched three databases; EMBASE, PubMed (MEDLINE), and Google Scholar using specified search terms. We had a total of nine articles with sample sizes ranging from 37 to 1551, and the age of participants ranged from 23 to 93 years. Articles were diverse in race and geographical locations. The articles were derived from cross-sectional studies, randomized studies, and experimental studies, and they focused on the relationship between humor and depression, and the reduced risk of depression in the study population. The articles identified different aspects of the relationship between humor and depression. The willingness of patients with depression to recognize or participate in humor could be defective resulting in abnormal social interactions such as withdrawal. However, there was some significant influence of humor or its styles on patients with depression either mitigating depressive symptoms or having no impact at all.

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Influence of humor expression on suicidal ideation among adolescents: mediating effects of depressive emotion and positive emotion

Cited by 14 publications

References 55 publications

Differences in Suicide-Related Twitter Content According to User Influence

Differences in Suicide-Related Twitter Content According to User Influence

Textual Features and Risk Preference Effects on Mental Health Education Among Teenager Students in Chongqing, China

A Comprehensive Review on the Effects of Humor in Patients With Depression

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