Network television news stories about suicide and short-term changes in total U.S. suicides

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 177, Issue 9, 1989, Pages 551-555

  Kessler, Ronald C ^a   Downey, Geraldine ^a   Stipp, Horst ^b   Ronald Milavsky, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The National Broadcasting Company ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE; TELEVISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0024423481     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198909000-00006     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Baron JE, Reiss PC (1985) Same time, next year: Aggregate analyses of the mass media and violent behavior. Am Sociol Rev 50:364-371.
2. Berkowitz L (1984) Some effects of thoughts on anti-and prosocial influences of media events: A cognitive-neoassociation analysis. Psychol Bull 95:410-427.
3. Bollen KA, Phillips DP (1981) Suicidal motor vehicle fatalities in Detroit: A replication. AJS 87:404-412.
4. Bollen KA, Phillips DP (1982) Imitative suicides: A national study of the effects of television news stories. Am Social Rev 47:802-809.
5. CBS news index (Vols 1-5) (1975-1979) Glen Rock, NJ: Microfilming Corporation of America.
6. CBS news index (Vols 6-10) (1980-1984) Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International.
7. National Center for Health Statistics (1973-1984) Vital statistics of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
8. Phillips DP (1974) The influence of suggestion on suicide. Am Sociol Rev 39:340-354.
9. Phillips DP (1979) Suicide, motor vehicle fatalities, and the mass media: Evidence toward a theory of suggestion. AJS 84:1150-1174.
10. Phillips DP (1984) Teenagers and adult temporal fluctuations in suicide and auto fatalities. In HS Sudak, AB Ford, NB Rushforth (Eds), Suicide in the young (pp 69-80). Boston: Wright.
11. Phillips DP, Carstensen MS (1986) Clustering of teenage suicides after television news stories about suicide. N Engl J Med 315:685-689.
12. Phillips DP, Carstensen MS (1988) The effect of suicide stories on various demographic groups, 1968-1985. Suicide Life Threat Behav 18:100-114.
13. Stack S (1983) The effect of the Jonestown suicides on American suicide rates. J Soc Psychol 119:145-146.
14. Stack S (1987) Celebrities and suicide: A taxonomy and analysis, 1948-1983. Am Sociol Rev 52:401-412.
15. Vanderbilt television news index and abstracts (1973-1984) Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
16. Wasserman IM (1984) Imitation and suicide: A reexamination of the Werther effect. Am Sociol Rev 49:427-436.
17. World Health Organization (1977) Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death. (Based on the recommendations of the Ninth Revision Conference, 1975). Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.