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INTRODUCTION
Rationale
In a time to time bases technology and other inventions creates good will
over the years. But of course good will comes with destruction, riot and chaos. In
the modern days, technology creates riot at the market and mental disruption
the rising number of suicidal cases rooting from the usage of social media.
According to Albert Einstien, he feared that the world would rely so much
on social media that people will become idiots. This statement alone proves that
social media have two sides the negative and the positive. Over the course,
basis suicide is one of the most highly recognizing effects of depression. Some
countries like United States of America (USA), China, South Korea and Japan
including Philippines have the most number of suicidal cases in the span of five
In the Philippines social media has been rampant among teenagers this is
why almost 50% of the suicidal cases are caused by cyber bullying, network
threatening and social media shaming and bashing. In which, social media has
been the major contributor of depression. In this case is the avenue for physical,
The researchers would like to know. What are the factors that social
media contribute to the respondents to commit suicide and what are the
psychological behavior effects of using social media? The researchers would like
to address also if there are any significant relationship between social media and
Theoretical Background
The five theories listed below are of relation with the study itself. Theories
are based from the studies of the authors and previous researchers.
Theories
Below are the list of theories that supports the study throughout the
process. The theories where in relation with the suicidal factors and the usage of
Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon
social media and suicidal tendencies using the factors of computation such as
suicide ideation, to assess the negativity effect of social media usage, the theory
information’s.
The respondent was asked whether or not he/she had told others via
Respondents could choose among five options: never, sometimes, about half the
time, usually, and always. When examining the characteristics of people who
the three candidate models, we retained the five categories so that the original
The theory also states the preference for using social media categories of
Weibo to the public (a similar function as Twitter), blogging, and the use of online
forums. Respondents were asked to report how frequently they use the following
five types of social media to express themselves in regular situations: never use,
occasionally use, use every week, use almost every day, and use frequently
every day.
including age, gender, education level, marital status, and living status (living
who suffer from negative affectivity or/and suicidal ideation appear to have a
(WSC) or any social media sites, especially for those who also often use online
followed by immediate suicidal acts but is certainly a risk factor for suicide. If
other social media users, including lay people and online intervention programs,
media can be transformed into a safety net for suicide prevention. (Int. J.
suicide to seek help from professionals, and to educate the general users to act
professional follow-up.
psychache theory of suicide, suggest that inadequate social support and strong
with proper social support networks find it easier to develop coping strategies
support often is often assumed as a higher suicide behaviour risk factor. (Miller
predictor of suicidal behavior and nine out of ten people who end their life will
have experienced clinically significant mental health problems. One potential risk
factor that has received comparatively little attention is the stigma associated
been suggested that the acceptance of stigmatizing beliefs about mental illness
may influence levels of hopelessness. For example, if individuals accept that they
have a mental health problem, and internalize the often negative stereotypes
associated with mental illnesses (e.g. dangerousness, chronicity), they will feel
more hopeless and despairing of their future. Perceived racial discrimination and
with increased risk of suicidal ideation and there are similar findings in the
10% higher in diabetic patients. Psychiatric and physical disorders, which are
most commonly affective disorders, contribute to suicide risk. Additionally,
ethnicity and Christian, non-Catholic religion. These variables are associated with
insufficient to predict and prevent suicide because individual risk factors account
for a small proportion of the variance in risk and lack sufficient specificity.
. According to the theory, the capability for suicidal behavior emerges, via
First, very large samples are needed because the base rates of suicide
attempts and deaths are low in the general population (Moscicki, 2001). Second,
individuals with suicidal behaviors are often excluded from clinical trials due to
safety concerns on the part of researchers (Rudd, 2001). Finally, individuals who
die by suicide are not available for psychological assessments, thus limiting
and an activating psychosocial stressor (Mann, 2003; Plutchik, Van Praag, &
for other demographic differences in suicide rates, including that suicide rates
vary by gender, age, and culture. One of the most consistent findings with
regards to the epidemiology of suicidal behavior is its gender distribution. With
the exception of China, male suicides outnumber female suicides in every nation,
that are associated with elevated risk for suicide, including easy access to lethal
approach developed by Sigmund Freud in the late 1800s. Dr. Freud was one of
the first "psychotherapists" (professionals who treat mental problems with a talk
therapy) and was nothing if not influential. Freud introduced the idea that the
mind is divided into multiple parts, including the irrational and impulsive Id (a
representation of society inside the mind), and the rational ego which attempts to
bridge the divide between the other two parts. He popularized the idea that the
mind has conscious and unconscious parts which can conflict with one another,
certain troubling motives or wishes or desires). His basic therapeutic idea was
that mental illness was caused by mental tensions created by repression, and
As it turns out, reality is more complicated than this. Talking about your problems
and coming to understand them doesn't necessarily make them go away, but it
can be very helpful nevertheless. Many ideas from psychoanalysis turn out to be
important, including the idea of repression (and the related idea of dissociation)
which has developed into the study of coping strategies and defense
mechanisms (ways that people attempt to manage or ward off. (Dombeck, 2018)
relations" theory) is much less concerned about struggles between parts of the
mind, and much more concerned about how people understand and represent
their relationships with other people. The "objects" in object relations theory are
representations of people (how others are experienced, represented and
note that people's early relationships often set the tone that later relationships will
take. This occurs in part because of a phenomena called transference, and also
because what you experience early in life seems "normal" to you and you
become in some ways drawn to new relationships that help you replicate that
original "normal" feeling. This tendency works out well when early relationships
are healthy, but very poorly when they are disturbed. People whose early
relationships involve abuse or neglect often end up not feeling quite comfortable
one, the older relationship will be the point of comparison against which the
newer one is judged. The person doing the transferring may read characteristics
or tendencies into the newer relationship that aren't there, simply because they
were there in the older original relationship. For example, a young man who has
had a difficult and distant relationship with his father, might generally react angrily
towards other adult males, but not really have insight as to why he does this. He
can't get a grip. Object relational therapists might help this man by making him
aware of his prejudicial pattern, helping him to process his anger feelings in the
moment (should he attack the therapist), and by offering a new model of what a
relationship can be like (e.g., trusting, trustworthy, non-abusive) which the young
despite its obvious convenience and plausibility, Durkheim rejected this resource
for at least two reasons. First such "statistics of the motives of suicides" were
actually statistics of officials opinions of such motives, which thus embodied not
only difficult assessments of material fact, but still more difficult explanations and
such reports, Durkheim simply denied that motives were true causes, a
themselves (over the same time period and across the same occupational
groups). These "reasons" to which suicides are ascribed, Durkheim thus insisted,
are only apparent causes, individual repercussions of more general states which
they only imperfectly express: "They may be said to indicate the individuals weak
points, where the outside current bearing the impulse to self-destruction most
easily finds introduction. But they are no part of this current itself, and
occupational groups) across which the variations in suicide rates occur, and
throughout an entire society; on the contrary, its effect is typically felt within those
society as a whole -- the force of altruism in the army depends on the role of the
when they are absolutely indisposed to it, but the same social causes that
produce these currents also affect the way individuals are socialized, so that a
society quite literally produces citizens with the appropriate dispositions at the
same time that it molds the currents to which they will thus respond. Durkheim
did not deny, therefore, that individual motives have a share in determining who
commits suicide but he did insist that the nature and intensity of the
Indeed, this was why Durkheim could claim that his theory, however
"deterministic," was more consistent with the philosophical doctrine of free will
than any psychologistic theory which makes the individual the source of social
phenomena; for the intensity of his currents, like the virulence of an infectious
disease, determines only the rate at which the population will be affected, not the
Conceptual Framework
The diagram below shows the conceptual framework of the study, which
Sigmund Freud’s
Psychodynamic Theory Revised
by Karl A. Menninger
In this paper, the researchers would want to prove if social media had any
significant relationship between the suicidal cases. The above figure shows the
pathway or flow toward achieving the desired target of the researchers. The
above figure includes the theory, interpretation of data gathered activity proposed
here with.
THE PROBLEM
the paper. The questions below were made to recognize the findings of the
study.
a. Age
b. Sex
c. Gender
2. What are the contributing factors of using social media towards committing
suicide?
suicide?
5. What are the behavioural and physical effects of using social media that
The following are the hypothesis of the study. The following hypothesis
are the educated guess of the researchers to specify the relationship of the two
suicidal cases.
Ho2: There is a significant factor/correlation between social media and
suicidal cases.
Ho2: There is a significance between Age and using social media towards
suicidal cases.
Ho2: There is a significance between Sex and using social media towards
suicidal cases.
entices the researchers to conduct the study paper. This idea along born in the
cognitive and emotional parts of the researchers can globally trade information’s
deaths: aside from the researcher’s personal interest in the matter, the outcome
of using social media as well as its contribution to the rising number of suicidal
Parents. They will educate their children about the proper uses of social
media and the proper etiquettes they should possess. Also this will be a
reference to parents who are depressed and may commit suicide via social
media.
even social workers will benefit this study as an additional reference to their
guiding principles.
destruction.
with/or relating to the usage of social media and it is relation to suicidal cases in
The researchers study the Relationship of using social media with the
suicidal cases. This study is conducted in only one barangay of Cebu City
namely Barangay Mabolo, with five divisions of age bracket starting from the age
since researchers are comfortable with the place and easy for them to gather
The respondents of this study were males and females, and LGBTQIA of
each barangay and age bracket. Therefore, the total number of respondents was
155 individuals who are actively using social networking sites and has a history
Research Instrument
To get the data needed the researchers used the following instruments.
And these instruments were based from the researchers made questionnaires.
Questionnaire- serves as the bases towards filling the required data for
for the experiences and true manifestation of the victims and respondents.
2. Approval Letter- serves the bridged and starting point of everything before
actual questionnaire but only testing 10-15 students in order to test the
The researchers will get the record of their ages, the number of
respondents and their gender, but in order to gather data that was needed for the
study, the researchers will make an approval letter permission to the Barangay
Also, the researchers will get a hold of suicidal cases within the restriction
of Cebu City. Basically, the researchers will tap with the Barangay of their
Duration
The study has its specific date and time on when will be effective. The
duration of this study started on January during the opening of the 3 rd Semester
until March of the 4th Semester. During that time duration everything inside the
paper was being fully loaded, data, information, recommendations and things to
reconsider are already done. Pre-oral defence and Post-defence will be followed
Below are the list of terms used in the study. The definition that corresponds to it
are base from how the word is being used in the study.
Social Media: The term means the vital factor toward contributing the
rising number of social cases around the city. It is also the arena on which
Suicidal Cases: This term means the case on which the researchers will
see through, upon as part of solving the Quanti-Quali paper in deterring the
contribute majorly to the increasing number of suicidal cases and victims around
the edge of the country and in many countries such as China and USA.
Chapter II
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This Chapter presents the Research Design, Flow of the Study, Determining of
Research Design
This study is a co relational study that indentifies the impact of the social
The diagram below shows the flow of the study which serves as a guide of
Statistical Treatment.
Determination of Sample Size
The study “The Relationship Between Social Media and Suicidal Cases”
determining the number of suicide cases and factors within. In determining the
NV +Se 2 x [(1−p)]
Ss = NSe +[V 2 x p (1− p)]
Where:
Ss = Sample Size
N = Population
V = Standard Value (2.58)
Se = Sampling Error (0.01)
P = Largest Possible Population (0.50)
Research Technique
the study within the mentioned barangay since the researchers are residents
Research Subjects
The respondents of this study were males and females, and LGBTQIA of
each barangay and age bracket. Therefore, the total number of respondents was
155 individuals who are actively using social networking sites and has a history
of suicide attempts. The researchers derived the 155 number of respondents
Research Instrument
To get the data needed the researchers used the following instruments.
And these instruments were based from the researchers made questionnaires.
Questionnaire- serves as the bases towards filling the required data for
for the experiences and true manifestation of the victims and respondents.
Approval Letter- serves the bridged and starting point of everything before
actual questionnaire but only testing 10-15 students in order to test the
Teacher.
The researchers will get the record of their ages, the number of
respondents and their gender, but in order to gather data that is needed for the
study, the researchers will make an approval letter permission to the Barangay
of Cebu City. Basically, the researchers will tap with the Barangay of their
The researcher will gather data from the target respondents by the use of
then evaluate.
Statistical Treatment
NV +Se 2 x [(1−p)]
Ss = NSe +[V 2 x p (1− p)]
Where:
Ss = Sample Size
N = Population
V = Standard Value (2.58)
Se = Sampling Error (0.01)
P = Largest Possible Population (0.50)
Chapter III
approximately 1.53 million people will die from suicide (Gvion&Apter, 2012).
There is increasing evidence that this behavior of using social media affects and
changes people's lives, especially in teenagers. Suicide has been identified not
explanation that has arisen is the cause and effect relationship between social
Aside from kids being influenced by suicide tendencies online, there is the
psychological explanation behind "15 minutes of fame". The first person who
eighteen-year-old woman from Égly in the suburbs of Paris - explicitly said, "I
Just like there are a myriad of reasons why youth are drawn to suicide, the
reasons why some chose to publicly display the deliberate act of killing
themselves are not straightforward. Unlike older generations, who view social
media as an invasion of their privacy, youth seem particularly susceptible to
sites, chat rooms, forums, e-mail lists and discussion boards might make them
from the reality of one’s own existence. Social media is a safe haven for
instantly get the attention or the validation they are craving for in the form of
Posting to the world the deliberate act of ending one’s life can possibly
instilled by social media and the feeling that one can control one’s actions in the
privacy of the bedroom or bathroom might take away the solitary feeling of the
suicide act. The combined weight of vulnerability, need for validation and limited
decision making capacity might make it difficult for some youth to step back once
experiences can turn into an obsession about approval that can wreak havoc on
self-image. For some it can ultimately lead to suicide. If social currency, that is
mood in the form of icons (emoji), is a pivotal measure for modern youths’ self-
esteem, then hanging or jumping off a building or overdosing on pills could seem
like no more than the equivalent of entering or exiting the world of virtual reality.
(Negi, 2018)
With the 21st century ingénue Cyberbullying playing the lead role in each
promotes a healthy mental state and even prevents suicide in some instances.
363 parents said they had registered their children for extracurricular activities to
"In Hong Kong, most people believe a degree from university equals one's
'losers'," Annie Cheung, co-founder of the non-profit organization Love Our Kids,
Tension arises between children and parents when academic results don't
added."Parents are spending less time with their children due to long working
hours. If parents only focus on children's academic results, their children will feel
they are neglected," Kate Ng from the NGO Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong
told DW.The government's investigative report also found that "lack of family
suicidal tendencies, said they are concerned with the recent youth suicide
problem and hope to reach out to at-risk youth by extending the service hours of
According to a recent International Center for Media & the Public Affairs
(ICMPA) study, "students around the world reported that being tethered to digital
technology 24/7 is not just a habit, it is essential to the way they construct and
It’s crucial that we understand both the positive and negative sides to social
media, thereby putting cyber bullying into context and appreciating its place
amidst all of the benefits and opportunities that arise from digital connections.
(International Center for Media & the Public Affairs (ICMPA, 2006)
Mexico, said the study only implies a connection between teen suicides,
depression and social media. It shows the need for more research on new
technology, Strasburger said. He noted that skeptics who think social media is
“When dime-store books came out, when comic books came out, when television
came out, when rock and roll first started, people were saying, ‘This is the end of
results of two surveys given to U.S. high school students to measure attitudes,
behaviors and interests. About half a million teens ages 13 to 18 were involved.
They were asked about use of electronic devices, social media, print media,
television and time spent with friends. Questions about mood included frequency
suicides. Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer at the American Foundation
for Suicide Prevention, said the study provides weak evidence for a popular
theory and that many factors influence teen suicide. (Moutier, 2017)
Teens' use of electronic devices including smart phones for at least five
hours daily more than doubled, from eight (8) percent in 2009 to nineteen (19)
percent in 2015. These teens were 70 percent more likely to have suicidal
thoughts or actions than those who reported one hour of daily use.
In 2015, thirty six (36) percent of all teens reported feeling desperately sad
(32) percent in 2009. For girls, the rates were higher forty-five (45) percent in
2015 versus forty (40) percent in 2009.In 2009, fifty eight (58%) of 12th grade
girls used social media every day or nearly every day; by 2015, eighty-seven
(87%) used social media every day or nearly every day. They were fourteen
(14%) more likely to be depressed than those who used social media less
author Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who
studies generational trends. "There's a tendency to say, 'Oh, teens are just
communicating with their friends.' Monitoring kids' use of smart phones and
social media is important, and so is setting reasonable limits, she said. (Twenge,
2012)
the Internet and via social media. Analyzed the first ten (10) sites listed for each
search, for a total of two hundred forty (240) different sites. Approximately half
were pro-suicide Web sites and sites that provided factual information about
suicide. Pro-suicide sites and chat rooms that discussed general issues
associated with suicide most often occurred within the first few hits of a search.
We should note that this study primarily focused on pro-suicide search terms and
thus likely excluded many suicide prevention and support resource sites. (Biddle
et al., 2010)
using Internet search engines. Of 373 Web site hits, thirty-one (31%) were
suicide neutral, twenty-nine (29%) were anti-suicide, and eleven (11%) were pro-
suicide. The remaining sites either did not load or included “suicide” in the title
but were not suicide sites (e.g., sites for movies and novels with “suicide” in their
title or music bands whose names included “suicide”). Together, these studies
detailed information on suicide methods, is very easy. (Recupero et. al, 2011)
There are several specific ways that social media can increase risk for
pro-suicide behavior. Cyber bullying and cyber harassment, for example, are
serious and prevalent problems .Cyber bullying typically refers to when a child or
sites, or instant messaging. Cyber harassment and cyber stalking typically refer
to these same actions when they involve adults. A review of data collected
between 2004 and 2010 via survey studies indicated that lifetime cyber bullying
victimization rates ranged from 20.8% to 40.6% and offending rates ranged from
used, has been well documented, and social media may possibly increase the
risk of the media contagion effect, especially among young people. A recent
the Internet and social media. Of seven hundred nineteen (719) individuals aged
sites (e.g., Facebook) and suicidal ideation, but it did find a connection between
al, 2010)
burning, and hitting oneself. In 2009, they conducted a search on the keywords
“self-injury” and “self-harm” via YouTube's search option and rated and analyzed
the fifty (50) most-viewed character videos (featuring live individuals) and fifty
(50) most-viewed non-character videos. Their results showed that the top videos
had more than two (2) million viewers and more than half fifty eight (58%) had no
viewer restrictions, such as requiring viewers to validate that they are aged 18
years or older. Lewis et al. reported that of the videos that were retrievable during
coding, forty-two (42) were neutral (neither promoted nor discouraged non-
suicidal self-injury, twenty-six (26) were against self-injury, twenty three (23)
provided a mixed message (both for and against self-injury), and seven (7) were
results represent an alarming trend that may foster communities in which non-
suicidal self-injury is encouraged and therefore increase the risk for self-injurious
found the suicide rate among teenage girls ages 15 to 19 hit a 40-year high in
2015. Between 2007 and 2015, the rates doubled among girls and rose by more
Social media platforms such as chat rooms and discussion forums may also
particular, interactions via chat rooms or discussion forums may foster peer
pressure to die by suicide encourage users to idolize those who have completed
suicide, or facilitate suicide pacts. Ultimately, these interactions may reduce the
doubts or fears of people who are ambivalent about suicide. A trend also appears
to be emerging in which people use social media to leave suicide notes. Suicide
notes left by individuals via social media are shared with the public
instantaneously and may influence the decisions of other vulnerable people who
Social media may also pose a hazard to vulnerable people through the
and provide support for beliefs and behaviors normally unacceptable by the
to users of pro–eating disorder sites, users of prosuicide sites may find support
and acceptance that they have not found through other means. Although these
online groups may provide the benefit of support, they may present a risk to the
between people, the emergence of prosuicide social media sites may present a
new risk to vulnerable people who might otherwise not have been exposed to
The Internet has also provided a way for people to obtain how-to
pharmacies outside of the United States have posed a significant risk to the
public. For example; the author described the case of a man in his 30s who
pharmacy outside the United States that did not require a prescription.
related method on message boards via the Internet. (Beatson, et al. 2009)
Related Literatures
In the book entitled “Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major
Works” It talks about the concrete definition of suicide and the factors that affect
to it. It also tackles the four major works of Durkheim on his earliest of times, he
define and differentiated the three types of suicide and according to the factors
(Durkheim, 1897)
here objected on both conceptual and empirical grounds -- that this theory
any case, that the suicide rate is in decline in July and August, and thus does not
vary regularly with temperature. The "revised" Italian argument -- that it is the
contrast between the departing cold and the beginning of the warm season that
as inconsistent with the perfect continuity (steady increase from January to June,
steady decrease from July to December) of the curve representing the monthly
Consistent with the argument of The Rules (Chapter VI) Durkheim insisted
themselves varying with the same continuity; and, as a first clue to the nature of
these causes, he pointed out that the proportional share of each month in the
total number of annual suicides is perfectly parallel with the average length of the
day at the same time of the year and the techno-gadget users. Other clues
follow: suicide is more common by day than by nights in morning and afternoon
increases in those months, days of the week and hours of the day when social
life is most active, and decreases when collective activity declines. Anticipating
the argument of Book Two, Durkheim thus suggested that suicide is the
consequence of the intensity of social life; but before he could proceed to explain
how such a cause might produce such an effect, Durkheim had to deal with one
other "psychological" theory -- Tarde's argument that social facts in general, and
(Durkheim,1897)
without asking about the coherent functions of social media to it. If we look at a
map of Western Europe, for example many are religious yet most of them are
active social media users, we see that where Protestants are most numerous the
suicide rate is highest, that where Catholics predominate it is much lower, and
that the aptitude of Jews for suicide is lower still, though to a lesser degree, than
husbands, followers and servants upon the deaths of their chiefs -- in which the
purposes; and for society to be able to do this, the individual personality must
have little value, a state Durkheim called altruism. (Rosenthal et. al, 1984)
society to which he belongs. But quite aside from integrating its members, a
society must control and regulate their beliefs and behavior as well; and
Durkheim insisted that there is a relation between a society's suicide rate and the
way it performs this important regulative function. Industrial and financial crises,
for example, increase the suicide rate, a fact commonly attributed to the decline
of economic well-being these crises produce. But the same increase in the
voluntary death. This is what Durkheim calls the Anomic Suicide and
technological aspect was part of it since it declines the economic growth yet tries
to use things that may cause unbalanced in the equilibrium- social media for
are of a different nature from individual thoughts, that the former have
characteristics which the latter lack. But how can this be if there are only
to in The Division of Labor and developed more fully in "Individual and Collective
exclusively of inanimate atoms; but surely this doesn't mean that there is "nothing
one another, form a psychical existence of a new species, which has its own
"something in the world has been altered. Naturally this change produces others,
qualities are not found in the elements composing them.Social life, Durkheim
we recall that social psychology has its own laws which are not those
towards suicide when theres a rampant usage of social media within the
"abnormal," and, as he had already shown through the example of crime in The
Rules of Sociological Method, the "immorality" of suicide did not necessarily point
to the latter. On the contrary, the statistical data going back to the eighteenth
Durkheim that suicide was a normal element in the constitution of all societies. In
primitive societies and the modern military, for example, the strict subordination
collective discipline. Again, in societies where the dignity of the person is the
where economic progress is rapid and social restraints become slack, anomie
function? Certainly not the state, Durkheim insisted, for political society is too
distant from the individual to affect his life forcefully and continuously since the
social media is withoin the breach of every humans hands without the
sociological factors. Neither is religion a binding force; for while the Roman
verses are often found on the internet but not being used instead sites that aren’t
biblical are much more comprehensed. Even the family, traditionally the central
cohesive force in the life of the individual, has proved susceptible to the same
disintegrative currents responsible for the rapid increase of suicide. In fact, the
state, religion, and the family were able to prevent suicides only because they
were cohesive before but not on modern times when social media is on the walls
for "it is always in contact with them by the constant exercise of the function of
which it is the organ and in which they collaborate. It follows the workers
wherever they go.... Wherever they are, they find it enveloping them, recalling
them to their duties, supporting them at need and that’s whata social media is
doing trailing people on all corners. Finally," he concluded, " social media is a
helpful tool as part of sociological growth but a destructive thing for the
psychological state.(Durkheim,1897)
“If you use social media to ruminate about how bad your life is, it will be
associated with negative feelings, but it can also be used to improve self-
University. He added that it is about how people use social media, as its
existence is neither good, nor bad. He also said that people using social media
as a way to connect with others is not a bad thing. (Martina C., 2017)
Meanwhile, Filipinos registered worldwide as the users having spent the
most time on social media websites, according to a We Are Social and social
Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter, followed by Brazil with three hours and 43
minutes of average usage. The Japanese, who scored the lowest, use social
Related Studies
platforms, such as chat rooms, blogging Web sites (e.g., Tumblr, Reddit), video
quarter of 2015, Facebook had 1.55 billion monthly active users. An immense
quantity of information on the topic of suicide is available on the Internet and via
social media. The information available on social media on the topic of suicide
can influence suicidal behavior, both negatively and positively. (Biddle et al.
2008)
suicide-associated terms (e.g., suicide, suicide methods, how to kill yourself, and
best suicide methods) to analyze the search results and found that pro-suicide
sites and chat rooms that discussed general issues associated with suicide most
often occurred within the first few hits of a search. Recupero et al . also conducted
Internet search engines. Of 373 Web site hits, 31% were suicide neutral, 29%
were anti-suicide, and 11% were pro-suicide. Together, these studies have
Although, the public opinion is that message boards are harmful, the
following studies show how they point to suicide prevention and have positive
influences. A study using content analysis analyzed all of the postings on the
AOL Suicide Bulletin Board over 11 months, and concluded that most
(Eichenberg, 2008). Then, a multi-method study was able to demonstrate that the
users of such forums experience a great deal of social support and only a small
Locally in the Phillipines, The need for more Philippine studies along the
lines that have been conducted abroad on online bashing, especially among
adolescents, is urgent and acute. The Philippines reportedly leads the world in
terms of most time spent on social media each day; and “six out of 10 young
people aged 15 to 24 years old are regular internet users and more than half
have social network and email accounts,” according to a study on media use and
youth lifestyle by Dr. Grace Cruz released by the Demographic Research and
The study was done in 2014 yet. The online landscape has, in many ways,
become even more vicious since then. How it’s affecting the mental health of
The Kaspersky survey also revealed that many children would rather hide
not seek help for anxiety and depression. A 2015 report from the Child Mind
Institute found that only about 20 percent of young people with a diagnosable
dwelled on the issue of what he called the “new face of depression on social
media,” with online bashing seen as a new front that may be contributing to a
after adverse interactions online. While the DOH admits that local data on
cyberbullying are still being gathered, on depression itself it cites the report by
the National Center for Mental Health that there were 3,479 callers to the
The study entitling “The Relationship between Social Media and Suicide.”
Had five major theories that corresponds to it or answers the questions used as a
validation and justification of the paper. The five theories were Mann-Whitney-
and social networking sites as a pre-requisite tool to determine the total number
of suicide cases. On the other note, the Theory of Sociological and Technological
Suicide by Wentworth Miller focuses on the idea that the people have risks of
committing suicide due to the lack of peer support and may lead to issues of
colleagues also known as the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, this relates to the
researchers study since it tackles the repeated suffering of the person from a bad
acts. In the fourth note, the fourth theory that corresponds and supported the
researchers study is the theory of Sigmund Freud. Freud introduced the idea that
the mind is divided into multiple parts, including the irrational and impulsive Id (a
representation of primal animal desires), the judgmental super-ego (a
representation of society inside the mind), and the rational ego which attempts to
bridge the divide between the other two parts. He popularized the idea that the
mind has conscious and unconscious parts which can conflict with one another,
uderstanding that people have egos and those egos might lead to an
understanding that people are much concern with what people are thinking about
them. Judging from the percepts this could lead to concious mind and
unconcious mind that may bring suicidal thoughts. Finally the theory of Emile
Durkheim best supports the study conducted by the researchers since it focuses
on the idea of sociology and environmental factors that highlighted the suicidal
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APPENDICES
Below are the Appendices of the study. These appendices are used in
Appendix A
Appendix B
The Barangay Official Permission Letter
Appendix C
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