ABSTRACT This article investigates the link between media coverage of celebrity suicides and the nation’s suicide rate. The instrumental variable regression is applied to suicide data from Statistics Korea and the media coverage data on celebrity suicides from Mediagaon of the Korea Press Foundation during the period from 1997 to 2009. The estimation results demonstrate that Korean celebrity suicides have significantly increased suicide rates, whereas non-Korean celebrity suicides have not. Moreover, greater media coverage of Korean celebrity suicides is associated with an increase in suicide rates. These findings shed light on the importance of media policy in the prevention of copycat suicides.

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媒体对名人自杀的报道是否会引发模仿自杀？来自韩国案例的证据

摘要 本文调查了媒体对名人自杀事件的报道与国家自杀率之间的联系。将工具变量回归应用于1997年至2009年韩国统计局的自杀数据和韩国新闻基金会Mediagaon的名人自杀媒体报道数据。估计结果表明韩国名人自杀显着增加了自杀率，而非韩国名人自杀没有。此外，媒体对韩国名人自杀事件的更多报道与自杀率的上升有关。这些发现阐明了媒体政策在预防模仿自杀方面的重要性。