Citation

Lee H, An S. Health Commun. 2015; 31(4): 468-477.

Affiliation

Division of Media Studies , Ewha Womans University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10410236.2014.966894

PMID

26485582

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of health news content on the stigma of suicide. In particular, this study tested whether the onset controllability and group categorization had a causal effect on people's stigma toward suicide. The results indicated that stigma scores were lower for those who read an article explaining the causes of suicide as uncontrollable than for those who read an article explaining the causes as controllable. Also, lower stigma scores were observed for those who read an article depicting suicidal people as the in-group compared to those who read an article depicting suicidal people as the out-group. Furthermore, stigma scores were the highest for those exposed to an article with the out-group categorization combined with the controllable causes of suicide.

Language: en