TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Social media users' reactions to suicide
JO  - Journal of loss and trauma
A1  - Al-Zaman, Md. Sayeed
A1  - Or Rashid, Mohammad Harun
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - To explore how social media users react to suicide, we collected and analyzed 3,482 public comments on Bangladeshi suicide news emphasizing the user's gender, victim's gender, victim's profession, and suicide risk factor. The quantitative content analysis found that users react to suicide in nine different ways: angry, sadness, surprise, irony, ridicule, judgmental, justification, speculation, and miscellaneous. Of them, angry (20.3%) is the dominant reaction. In many cases, users mock the suicide victims (12.7%), showing less empathy. We found strong positive correlations between users' reactions and victims' profession (φ = 0.493; p <.05) and users' reactions and suicide risk factors (φ = 0.233; p <.05).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1532-5024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2022.2044701
ID  - ref1
ER  -