Suicidal Disclosures among Friends

Mueller, Anna S.; Abrutyn, Seth

doi:10.1177/0022146514568793

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“…3 A reveals the standard effect for age groups. Sameness decreases suicide risk for the younger age groups ( 15 – 44 ), has little influence on the risk in middle age, and increases the risk for the oldest individuals. Ethnic and race effects are similarly complicated: For Whites and Blacks, sameness decreases individual suicide risk while for all other groups, and especially AI/ANs, the risk increases with sameness ( Fig.…”

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Cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity alters individual risk for completed suicide

Pescosolido

Lee

Kafadar

2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Among deaths of despair, the individual and community correlates of US suicides have been consistently identified and are well known. However, the suicide rate has been stubbornly unyielding to reduction efforts, promoting calls for novel research directions. Linking levels of influence has been proposed in theory but blocked by data limitations in the United States. Guided by theories on the importance of connectedness and responding to unique data challenges of low base rates, geographical dispersion, and appropriate comparison groups, we attempt a harmonization of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) and the American Community Survey (ACS) to match individual and county–level risks. We theorize cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity between individuals and communities, which we refer to as “social similarity” or “sameness,” focusing on whether having like-others in the community moderates individual suicide risks. While analyses from this new Multilevel Suicide Data for the United States (MSD-US) replicate several individual and contextual findings, considering sameness changes usual understandings of risk in two critical ways. First, high individual risk for suicide among those who are younger, not US born, widowed or married, unemployed, or have physical disabilities is cut substantially with greater sameness. Second, this moderating pattern flips for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Asians, and Hispanics, as well as among native-born and unmarried individuals, where low individual suicide risk increases significantly with greater social similarity. Results mark the joint influence of social structure and culture, deliver unique insights on the complexity of connectedness in suicide, and offer considerations for policy and practice.

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Cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity alters individual risk for completed suicide

Pescosolido

Lee

Kafadar

2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…These prevention attempts reveal potential avenues and controversies of providing support for self-harm and suicide in a Web-based community format. This is particularly important because of the evidence of suicide contagion, in which watching or hearing about suicide increases the likelihood of others engaging in suicidal behaviors [ 57 , 58 ]. Detecting concerns of suicide on Twitter in research raises important ethical questions.…”

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#MyDepressionLooksLike: Examining Public Discourse About Depression on Twitter

Lachmar¹,

Wittenborn²,

Bogen³

et al. 2017

JMIR Ment Health

108

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BackgroundSocial media provides a context for billions of users to connect, express sentiments, and provide in-the-moment status updates. Because Twitter users tend to tweet emotional updates from daily life, the platform provides unique insights into experiences of mental health problems. Depression is not only one of the most prevalent health conditions but also carries a social stigma. Yet, opening up about one’s depression and seeking social support may provide relief from symptoms.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine the public discourse of the trending hashtag #MyDepressionLooksLike to look more closely at how users talk about their depressive symptoms on Twitter.MethodsWe captured 3225 original content tweets for the hashtag #MyDepressionLooksLike that circulated in May of 2016. Eliminating public service announcements, spam, and tweets with links to pictures or videos resulted in a total of 1978 tweets. Using qualitative content analysis, we coded the tweets to detect themes.ResultsThe content analysis revealed seven themes: dysfunctional thoughts, lifestyle challenges, social struggles, hiding behind a mask, apathy and sadness, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and seeking relief.ConclusionsThe themes revealed important information about the content of the public messages that people share about depression on Twitter. More research is needed to understand the effects of the hashtag on increasing social support for users and reducing social stigma related to depression.

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“…Adolescents and young adults who most strongly believe that it is acceptable to end one’s life are more likely to make a suicide plan than those who do not have such beliefs [ 24 ]. Longitudinal analyses of US data find that adolescents’ exposure to the suicide attempt of a friend or relative can trigger new suicidal thoughts and attempts [ 13 , 25 ], particularly in girls [ 13 ], and after a friend’s suicide attempt [ 13 ], but that these effects fade with time [ 13 ]. They also identify a triggering effect of exposure to suicidal behaviour in a peer’s family member [ 26 ].…”

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Attitudes to suicide following the suicide of a friend or relative: a qualitative study of the views of 429 young bereaved adults in the UK

Pitman

Nesse²,

Morant³

et al. 2017

BMC Psychiatry

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BackgroundPeople bereaved by suicide are at increased risk of suicide attempt and suicide, but explanations for these associations remain theoretical. It is possible that the experience of suicide bereavement modifies personal attitudes towards suicide, but the nature of these changes remains unexplored. There is a need to understand personal attitudes to suicide following suicide bereavement, as this may inform the development of suicide prevention interventions. Our aim was to explore the attitudes of young adults bereaved by suicide towards their own likelihood of dying by suicide.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study of staff and students aged 18–40 at 37 United Kingdom (UK) higher educational institutions in 2010. Ethical approval was granted by the UCL Research Ethics Committee. Qualitative responses to a question probing attitudes to own suicide were provided by 429 respondents who had experienced bereavement by the suicide of a close contact. We identified key themes in this dataset using thematic analysis.ResultsAnalysis identified four main themes: suicide as a more tangible option (whether feared or not); identification with the deceased and awareness of shared vulnerabilities to suicide; personal determination to avoid suicide; and beliefs regarding safeguards against suicide. These themes reflected a broad split in participants' views regarding own likelihood of dying by suicide, influenced by the degree to which own suicide was feared and the extent to which they felt in control of determining a suicide death. Whilst the majority described an aversion to the idea of attempting suicide themselves, largely through an awareness of the impact on others, a minority described their experiences as having normalised suicide as a personal option.ConclusionsThe views of a sample of UK-based adults bereaved by suicide suggest that exposure to the suicide of a close friend or relative can influence attitudes to suicide in ways that could influence own risk of suicide attempt. The normalising attitudes to suicide observed in a minority of respondents could contribute to the observed association between suicide bereavement and suicide attempt.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12888-017-1560-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Suicidal Disclosures among Friends

Cited by 109 publications

References 62 publications

Cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity alters individual risk for completed suicide

Cross-level sociodemographic homogeneity alters individual risk for completed suicide

#MyDepressionLooksLike: Examining Public Discourse About Depression on Twitter

Attitudes to suicide following the suicide of a friend or relative: a qualitative study of the views of 429 young bereaved adults in the UK

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