A Linguistic analysis of suicide-related Twitter posts

Crisis

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 319-329

  O'Dea, Bridianne ^a   Larsen, Mark E ^a   Batterham, Philip J ^b   Calear, Alison L ^b   Christensen, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Linguistic analysis; Prevention; Social media; Suicide; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 85026469571     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: 21512396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000443     Document Type: Article

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