TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Stigma Toward Suicide
T2 - Effects of Group Categorization and Attributions in Korean Health News
AU - Lee, Hannah
AU - An, Soontae
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/4/2
Y1 - 2016/4/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/10410236.2014.966894
DO - 10.1080/10410236.2014.966894
M3 - Article
C2 - 26485582
AN - SCOPUS:84948571304
SN - 1041-0236
VL - 31
SP - 468
EP - 477
JO - Health Communication
JF - Health Communication
IS - 4
ER -