The Effect Of Media Stories On Suicide And Depression Status To The Implicit Suicide Attitudes Of College Students

Objective:The suicide of young people especially college students have caused community concern, so we need think the school of education and the environment. The mass media stories on suicide is commonplace, which is one of stimulative factors for suicide. Many studies showed that suicide attitude played an important role in predicting behavior, suicide attitude should not be an exception for the implicit field.This paper probed into the effect of media stories on suicide to college students, in order to expand the areas of suicide attitude, and exploit the experimental paradigm; In addition, probing into the different suicide attitude between the depressive student and normal ones, and providing guidance for persons who work in the college, to prevent the suicide of college students.Methods:Selecting college students (grade one to five) as the testees, the variety of Implicit Association Test:The GO/NO GO (GNAT) was the experimental paradigm.The E-Prime software was used for the procedure, and the network stories on suicide were used as stimulative materials.This paper have two parts, experiment 1, probing into immediating the media stories on suicide affect the college students'suicide attitude; experiment2, probing into the depression affect on college students of suicide attitude,and the relation of implicit suicide attitude and explicit suicide attitude.Testees operated in the psychological laboratory who were divided into groups (4～6 persons), and completed the experiment on computer keyboard keys.Results:1.Comparing the timet of reaction on GNAT, showing that "suicidal behavior-positive attribute" words with the time of reaction was longer than"suicidal behavior-negative attribute "words. Experiment1, the control group (GNAT1:t=6.05,p<0.00;GNAT2:t=2.81,p<0.01); the experi-mental group (GNAT1:t=4.11,p<0.00; GNAT2:t=4.68,p<0.00). Experiment2, the depressing roup (GNAT1:t=4.83,p<0.00; GNAT2:t=5.43, p<0.00); the control group(GNAT1:t=3.77,p<0.01; GNAT2:t=3.68,p<0.01).2. The pearson correlation was no significance between implicit suicide attitude and explicit suicide attitude.3.Experiment 1,gender main effect,condition main effect,gender and condition main effect were no significance on implicit suicide attitude (GNAT1:F=0.27,P>0.05;F=0.73,P>0.05;F=0.13,P>0.05;GNAT2:F=0.49, P>0.05; F=1.32,P>0.05;F=0.18,P>0.05);gender main effect, condition main effect, gender and condition main effect were no significance on explicit suicide attitude, (F=0.19,P>0.05;F=0.02, P>0.05; F=0.04, P>0.05).4.Experiment2, implicit suicide attitude, gender main effect, depression main effect, gender and depression main effect were no significance (GNAT1:F=2.21,P>0.05,F=0.12,P>0.05,F=0.19,P>0.05;GNAT2:F=0.79, P>0.05, F=0.02,P>0.05,F=0.69,P>0.05); The explicit suicide attitude were signifycance between the depression group and the control group (t=2.27, p<0.05).Conclusions:1.The college students have non-positive attitude on implicit suicide; and have neutrality or contradiction attitude on explicit suicide.2. There is no relationship between implicit suicide attitude and explicit suicide attitude, they were coexistence of two independent systems.3. Immediating the media stories on suicide is no effect on college students'implicit and explicit attitude toward suicide.4. Depression not affect the college students'implicit attitude toward suicide, but affect explicit attitude toward suicide.5. Gender don't affect the college students'suicide attitude.