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Peer reviewedStack, Steven – Social Science Quarterly, 1990
Examining National Center for Health statistics, questions whether fictional television accounts of teenage suicide affect the teenage suicide rate. Assesses four films about teenage suicide, nationally televised in 1984 and 1985. Accounts for holiday and temporal effects, television new stories, and large city influences. Finds that the films did…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Fiction, Films
