College Students' Responses to Suicidal Content on Social Networking Sites: An Examination Using a Simulated Facebook Newsfeed

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 609-624

  Corbitt Hall, Darcy J ^a   Gauthier, Jami M ^a   Davis, Margaret T ^a   Witte, Tracy K ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PEER GROUP; RISK MANAGEMENT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 84962594333     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12241     Document Type: Article

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