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Suicide: Media Impacts in War and Peace, 1910–1920

Stack, Steven·1988·Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
DOI 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1988.tb00172.x
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The literature of the impact of publicized suicide stories on suicide has neglected the influence of social contexts. In the present study, the context of a popular war was inspected. A Durkheimian perspective was tested, wherein the context of war would lower suicide through promoting social integration. Suicide stories in such times should have less of an impact than in times of peace. Data were collected on widely publicized suicide stories during the World War I decade. A Cochrane—Orcutt iterative time series analysis found that publicized suicide stories during war had no impact on suicide. In contrast, peacetime suicide stories were associated with an increase of 48 suicides. This is significant, since the electronic media were nonexistent and hence could not reinforce the publicity in the printed media, as they do today. Further analysis of the relationship found similar results for New York City.

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Authors
Stack, S.
Affiliations
Auburn University (US)
Corresponding author
Stack, Steven
ORCID
Stack, Steven
Venue
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1988-12
Volume
18
Issue
4
Pages
342-357
ISSN
  • 0363-0234 (ISSN-L)
  • 1943-278X
DOI
10.1111/j.1943-278x.1988.tb00172.x
OpenAlex
W1510394875
Cited by
40
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
3.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 8064 d)
Locations
  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH38209, MH41510)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Media Influence and Health
Keywords
suicide, media influence, war, World War I, social integration, Émile Durkheim, peacetime, print media, New York City
MeSH terms
Female, Humans, Male, Newspapers as Topic, Persuasive Communication, Social Identification, Suicide, United States, Warfare

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