Copycat suicide

A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the adult attempting suicide knows approximately either from local cognition or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. a publicized suicide serves as a trigger, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide by a susceptible or suggestible person. This is included to as suicide contagion.

A spike of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide is asked as the Werther effect, coming after or as a result of. Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Suicides occasionally spread through a school system, through a community, or in terms of a celebrity suicide wave, nationally. This is called a suicide cluster. Suicide clusters are caused by the social learning of suicide-related behaviors, or "copycat suicides". ingredient clusters are clusters of suicides in both time as well as space, and shit been linked to direct social learning from nearby individuals. Mass clusters are clusters of suicides in time but not space, and score believe been linked to the broadcasting of information concerning celebrity suicides via the mass media.

Social proof model

An alternate model to explain copycat suicide, called "Alex Mesoudi of Queen Mary University of London, developed a data processor framework of a community of 1000 people, to study how copycat suicides occur. These were divided into 100 groups of 10, in a model designed to make up different levels of social organization, such(a) as schools or hospitals within a town or state. Mesoudi then circulated the simulation through 100 generations. He found the simulated people acted just as sociologists' picture predicted. They were more likely to die by suicide in clusters, either because they had learned this trait from their friends, or because suicidal people are more likely to be like one another.