Social Stigma Toward Suicide: Effects of Group Categorization and Attributions in Korean Health News. Issue 4 (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lee, Hannah; An, Soontae
• Is Part Of: Health communication. Volume 31:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 468
• Page End: 477
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: Communication in medicine -- Periodicals; Health in mass media -- Periodicals; 362.1014
• DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.966894
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1041-0236

Abstract

Abstract: 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.