This study examined the different dimensions and instruments used in committing suicide and how it gave rise to suicidal thoughts among Nigerian university students who had witnessed these suicide cases posted in social media platforms. Convenience sample of 30 students who had witnessed social media reported suicides were studied using focus group discussion. It was found that suicide a single person affair becomes a group affair through the power of its postings in social media platforms which generates different discussions on it. Students tend to have different suicidal thoughts following suicides they watched in social media platforms. These suicidal thoughts come in the form of high suicidal ideation, near suicidal ideation and no suicidal ideation. Use of sniper (a chemical used in killing insects) in committing suicide by students generated more thoughts of suicide especially when posted in social media platforms than other means of committing suicide.

这项研究检查了自杀所使用的不同维度和工具，以及它如何在目睹社交媒体平台上发布的这些自杀案例的尼日利亚大学生中引起自杀念头。使用焦点小组讨论研究了 30 名目睹社交媒体报道自杀的学生的便利样本。人们发现，自杀一个人的事件通过其在社交媒体平台上的发布的力量变成了一个群体事件，从而引发了不同的讨论。学生在社交媒体平台上看到的自杀事件后，往往会有不同的自杀念头。这些自杀念头以高自杀意念、接近自杀意念和无自杀意念的形式出现。