The Dual Value of the Web: Risks and Benefits of the Use of the Internet in Disorders with A Self-Destructive Component in Adolescents and Young Adults

Campaioli, Giulia; Sale, Eleonora; Simonelli, Alessandra; Pomini, Valeria

doi:10.1007/s10591-017-9443-9

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“…The theories see greater knowledge about suicide methods and access to suicide methods, as might be discussed in the topic Suicide Methods, as increasing a person's capacity to engage in suicidal behaviors. Discussing suicide methods in an SISC might also increase the risk of uptake or imitation by other users in a similar way as discussions of methods for engaging in selfdestructive behaviors or hiding them from others in online communities for self-harm or eating disorders [62].We did not observe significant changes in the topic Suicide Attempts. This is noteworthy as reading about suicide attempts or completed suicides in online communities has been linked to increases in suicidal ideation among adolescents [19].…”

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Psycholinguistic changes in the communication of adolescent users in a suicidal ideation online community during the COVID-19 pandemic

Feldhege

Wolf

Moessner

et al. 2022

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, increases in suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in adolescents have been registered. Many adolescents experiencing suicidal ideation turn to online communities for social support. In this retrospective observational study, we investigated the communication—language style, contents and user activity—in 7975 unique posts and 51,119 comments by N = 2862 active adolescent users in a large suicidal ideation support community (SISC) on the social media website reddit.com in the onset period of the COVID-19 pandemic. We found significant relative changes in language style markers for hopelessness such as negative emotion words (+ 10.00%) and positive emotion words (− 3.45%) as well as for social disengagement such as social references (− 8.63%) and 2nd person pronouns (− 33.97%) since the outbreak of the pandemic. Using topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), we identified significant changes in content for the topics Hopelessness (+ 23.98%), Suicide Methods (+ 17.11%), Social Support (− 14.91%), and Reaching Out to users (− 28.97%). Changes in user activity point to an increased expression of mental health issues and decreased engagement with other users. The results indicate a potential shift in communication patterns with more adolescent users expressing their suicidal ideation rather than relating with or supporting other users during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Psycholinguistic changes in the communication of adolescent users in a suicidal ideation online community during the COVID-19 pandemic

Feldhege

Wolf

Moessner

et al. 2022

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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“…Social media websites play an important role in everyday life, and can have both beneficial and harmful effects in adolescents and young adults (Campaioli, Sale, Simonelli, & Pomini, 2017). They can introduce users to and reinforce potentially harmful behaviors such as abusing prescription drugs or viewing and identifying with "thinspiration" materials.…”

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Analyzing big data in social media: Text and network analyses of an eating disorder forum

Moessner

Feldhege

Wolf

et al. 2018

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…These challenges notwithstanding, the study findings indicate that young women who use TalkLife are both expressing their experiences and potentially being exposed to other negative-laden disclosures and larger discussions of sexual assault (the average view of self-disclosure posts was 55.4 per post). Given the number of views of each post, it is also important to consider that this may be a particularly vulnerable group of youth who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties and, as such, they may be more vulnerable to reports of others’ trauma; this is the case for social media use in individuals who self-injure and those with eating disorders ( Campaioli et al, 2017 ; Lewis & Seko, 2016 ). Future studies may explore the impact of viewing negative-laden descriptors of sexually traumatic events.…”

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Understanding Discussions of Sexual Assault in Young Women on a Peer Support Mental Health App: A Content Analysis

Collaton

Barata

Lewis

2022

J Interpers Violence

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Trauma narratives may have been influenced by the Me Too movement, with thousands of individuals disclosing sexual violence stories online. Youth, the largest demographic of online users, may prefer the anonymity of the Internet to discuss experiences of sexual assault. Understanding the ways that young women, especially those experiencing mental health difficulties, discuss their experiences is important as they are at higher risk of revictimization and continued poor mental health. We searched for terms related to acts of sexual assault on a mental health peer-support app, TalkLife, and compared the number of posts during the initial wave of the Me Too movement (October 2017–March 2018) to the same time period in the previous year (October 2016–March 2017). We found a significant increase in posts related to sexual assault of 49.7% between the Pre and Post Me Too time periods ( p < .001), controlling for a general increase in posts. A content analysis of 700 randomly selected posts found that a substantial number of young women used TalkLife to discuss their experiences of sexual assault, and these self-disclosures were mostly hopeless or depressing in tone. Additionally, neither the nature nor the number of self-disclosures varied across time points. The negative tone of the self-disclosures in the current study is worrying because the way women talk about their trauma can shape how they understand it, which could lead to negative self-appraisal and continued mental health difficulties. Online spaces have the potential to support young women and facilitate help-seeking, but we must be attentive to how they are used.

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The Dual Value of the Web: Risks and Benefits of the Use of the Internet in Disorders with A Self-Destructive Component in Adolescents and Young Adults

Cited by 11 publications

References 69 publications

Psycholinguistic changes in the communication of adolescent users in a suicidal ideation online community during the COVID-19 pandemic

Psycholinguistic changes in the communication of adolescent users in a suicidal ideation online community during the COVID-19 pandemic

Analyzing big data in social media: Text and network analyses of an eating disorder forum

Understanding Discussions of Sexual Assault in Young Women on a Peer Support Mental Health App: A Content Analysis

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