@article{ref1,
title="Belief in a Werther Effect: Third-Person Effects in the Perceptions of Suicide Risk for Others and the Moderating Role of Depression",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2011",
author="Scherr, Sebastian and Reinemann, Carsten",
volume="41",
number="6",
pages="624-634",
abstract="Werther Effect research has almost solely focused on the behavioral level of media effects. Clinically relevant predispositions like depression as well as the moderating role of media effects on a perceptional level have been omitted so far. To bridge this gap, we reanalyzed the data of an experiment conducted by Rustad, Small, Jobes, Safer, and Peterson: volunteer students' ratings for their self-risk of depression and suicide as well as their perceptions of others' suicide risk were investigated. While a Werther Effect could not be observed, there is a general overestimation of media influences on others-presumed Werther Effects-that are moderated by the personal degree of depression.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1111/j.1943-278X.2011.00059.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1943-278X.2011.00059.x"
}