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Types of Stressors on Nonprofessional Against-Suicide and Pro-Suicide Message Boards
- Source :
- Crisis. 40:257-264
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Hogrefe Publishing Group, 2019.
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Abstract
- Abstract. Background: Little is known about presenting problems of primary posters (i.e., posters opening the thread) and their responders in nonprofessional against-suicide and pro-suicide message boards. Aims: We aimed to compare problems described in suicide message boards between different types of users (primary posters and respondents) and between against-suicide, neutral, and pro-suicide message boards. Method: In all, 1,182 archival threads with 20,499 individual postings from seven nonprofessional suicide message boards supporting an against-suicide, neutral, or pro-suicide attitude were randomly selected. Problems mentioned by primary posters and their respondents were coded with content analysis. Differences between pro-suicide, neutral, and against suicide boards, as well as correlations between primary posters and respondents, were calculated. Results: Interpersonal problems were most frequently mentioned by primary posters in against-suicide threads (40.9%) and less frequently in pro-suicide threads (11.8%; p < .001). In pro-suicide boards, the most frequent stressors were suicide method-related (e.g., how to identify a safe method: 26.2% vs. 2.5% in against-suicide boards, p < .001). Primary posters resembled respondents in terms of presenting problems in pro-suicide boards, but not in against-suicide boards. Limitations: Only self-reported problems were assessed. Conclusion: The results confirm a stronger focus on death than on life among users in pro-suicide message boards, and posters with similar problems meet in pro-suicide boards. The posters appear to clearly emphasize social strains over psychiatric problems compared with some professional settings.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Injury control
education
Stressor
Poison control
Human factors and ergonomics
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Injury prevention
medicine
Message board
Psychiatry
Psychology
human activities
health care economics and organizations
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21512396 and 02275910
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Crisis
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e795755261802ec1bd86afc3d56eaeee