The Impact of Suicide Utility Perception on News over Terminally Ill Patients’ Suicide Attitudes
A Pilot Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15515010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diego García-Fernández (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Samuel Fernández-Salinero (0000-0003-0418-2828, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Gabriele Giorgi (0000-0002-7340-356X, European University of Rome), Giorgio Topa (0000-0002-9181-8603, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, corresponding author), Ana María Marcos del Cano (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 16 |
| Pages | 8784-8784 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph18168784 |
| PMID | 34444533 |
| OpenAlex | W3195966538 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Suicide represents a very important issue in public health. For approaching attitudes toward suicide, we have developed an instrument that, following previous recommendations, assesses specific thoughts related to the perception of suicide utility in the press. First of all, we will test the psychometric properties of the scale we created ad hoc for assessing suicide utility perception. After that, we expect to find that the suicide utility perception in the press will have a statistically significant impact on positive attitudes toward terminally ill patients' suicide (Hypothesis 1). In addition, this relationship will be mediated by suicide legitimation (Hypothesis 2). This mediation will be moderated by depressive symptomatology (Hypothesis 3). The sample was composed of 66 Spanish participants. Suicide legitimation was significantly related to the positive evaluation of terminally ill people's euthanasia. Finally, when the levels of depression's psychological concomitants increased, the support for terminally ill people's euthanasia increased as well. Implications and limitations have been discussed
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |