| Significance and objectiveSuicide of college students had attracted a lot of attention. As social cognition, suicide attitude could predict the risk of suicide of person in a certain degree. The impact of media in society on suicide attitude were ignore frequently. Nowadays, media had been penetrated into every aspect of people’s life, and media content with suicide information were an important factor of influencing people’s suicide attitude. People watched movie a lot in their normal life, and the suicide plot were not rare. Movies was not study enough in the aspect of Werther Effect, and the impact of movie with suicide information and how did these movie made their effect to people were still not clear. For now, more and more researchers emphasized the implicit aspect of suicide attitude, and new research tool had been developed. Studies had found that TAT could be an effective tool for researching the mechanism of suicide plots influencing subject’s suicide attitude. This paper probed into the impact of suicide frames and the suicide plots of movies to college students, and using the TAT as one of the methods. Providing the guidance for persons who work in the college and work for mental health of college students, to prevent the suicide of college students.Methods and SubjectsSelecting college students as testee, and using the slice of movie as experiment material to conduct the experiments. Base on the purpose of this study, the testees were divided into three groups(the full one, TFO/the consored one, TCO/the historical one, THO). The experimental paradigm concluded:implicit association test(IAT)/Thematic Apperception Test(TAT)/Positive And Negative Affect Schedule(PANAS)/Questionnaire of Suicide Attitude(QSA). The three groups of testees were asked to take the same procedure of the experiment, while the experimental material were different. TFO were asked to watch a slice of movie without any censorship. TCO were asked to watch a slice of movie which had no suicide frame. THO were asked to watch a slice of movie about the rise of Holland during the 1400s. All the operation of experiment were taken place in a lab.Results1. After watching movies, both of explicit suicide attitude in three groups(F1:TFO=3.14±0.88; TCO=2.92±0.56; THO=2.97±0.59; F2:TFO=3.90±0.59; TCO=3.78±0.55; THO=3.91±0.49; F3:TFO=3.57±0.42; TCO=3.66±0.44; THO=3.65±0.42; F4:TFO=3.55±1.05; TCO=3.68±0.68; THO=3.70±0.57), and implicit suicide attitude(IAT score:TFO=-0.56±0.40; TCO=-0.57±0.45; THO=-0.66±0.27) were in appropriate level, which meant no current suicide risk occured. No difference were found in both aspect of suicide attitude in three groups (F1:F=0.669,p>0.05; F2:F=0.459,p>0.05; F3:F=0.36, p>0.05;F4:F=0.257,p>0.05; IAT:F=0.529, p>0.05).2. The association between explicit suicide attitude and implicit suicide attitude were not significant.3. Testees who had ever watch the movie had a higher score in F1(t=-3.12, p<0.05)and F2(t=-3.70,p<0.05)than testees who had not watch.4. No difference were found in positive affect in three groups. But the score of negative affect of TFO(p<0.05) and TCO (p<0.05)were higher than THO separately, while no difference between TFO and TCO.5. Significant difference were found in the percentage of happening of Dysphoria in Card 14(χ2=10.98, p<0.05) and Card 3BM(χ2=13.36,p<0.05), and THO were lower than TFO(p<0.05)and TCO (p<0.05). Significant difference were found in the score of Card 14(F=3.41, p<0.05), and THO were lower than TFO(p<0.05) and TCO(p<0.05).6.28 stories contained suicide content, and 2 of 12 stories with suicide content wrote by TFO were turning stories; 2 of 9 stories with suicide content wrote by TCO were turning stories; 6 of 7 stories with suicide content wrote by THO were turning stories. Significant difference of the percentage of happening turning suicide stories were found. THO were significant higher than the other two group (χ2=9.31,p<0.05), but no difference were found between TFO (p<0.05) and TCO (p<0.05)Conclusion1. The shot of suicide was not the main influencing factor.2. Film with suicidal content could induce passive emotion.3. Film with suicidal content had an impact on suicide attitude of college students in TAT.4. Implicit/explicit suicide attitude of college student were split to two independent systems.5. College student had a regulatory mechanism of suicide.Innovative point of this study1. Using different kinds of researching tool, from implicit to explicit, and from questionnaire to experiment. Analyzing the impact of suicide movie on college students.2. Introducing TAT into the aspect of suicide attitude, and developing the research of Rustad. Splitting the testees into three groups.3. Exploring the system of suicide of college students in TAT, pointing out that suicide content could interrupt the function of the system. |
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