![]() ![]() Next-of-kin, particularly parents, faced various challenges to talk to the adolescents about social media use, including technological illiteracy, online anonymity, and the youths’ closedness. A group of girls cultivated an online identity around their suicidal thoughts and behaviours. The themes of dependency and triggers and imitation were more salient in young females. However, various themes were discussed relating to the harmful effects of social media, including dependency, triggers and imitation, challenges, cybervictimization and psychological entrapment. Young people benefitted from peer support and recovery stories. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was performed of 55 semi structured interviews with peers and parents of the decedents. All were under the age of twenty years, with an average of seventeen years. Methodsĭata were analyzed from a psychological autopsy study of 35 adolescents who died by suicide in the Netherlands (43% of all adolescents who died by suicide in that year). ![]() The current study aimed to inform digital suicide prevention strategies by examining the meaning of social media in the lives of young suicide victims and elucidating the harmful and supportive effects of social media use on their wellbeing and distress. The influence of social media on mental health and suicidal thoughts and behaviours has been amply studied, but there is little empirical evidence for its potential role in adolescent suicides. While there are many benefits for young people to use social media, adverse effects such as cyberbullying, online challenges, social comparison and imitation may provoke and aggravate suicidal thoughts and behaviors. ![]()
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