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Silvia Sara Canetto¹, Lorenza Entilli², Ilaria Cerbo²

¹Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

|December 20, 2022

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Italian newspapers frame women's suicides as irrational personal issues, but men's suicides as understandable responses to social problems. This framing may contribute to higher male suicide rates and less stigma.

Keywords:

culture gender newspaper stories qualitative analyses suicide scripts

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Area of Science:

Sociology
Cultural Psychology
Public Health

Background:

Cultural variations significantly impact suicide rates, beliefs, and attitudes.
Suicide beliefs and attitudes are key predictors of suicidality and form cultural suicide scripts.
Existing research on suicide scripts is predominantly from Anglophone countries.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate cultural suicide scripts for women and men in Italy.
To analyze the portrayal and underlying beliefs of male and female suicides in Italian media.

Main Methods:

Analysis of 923 Italian newspaper stories concerning women's and men's suicides.
Examination of media narratives to understand cultural scripts and beliefs about suicide causation.

Main Results:

Italian newspapers disproportionately featured male suicide stories, aligning with higher male suicide mortality rates.
Women's suicides were depicted as unexpected, linked to personal/emotional issues.
Men's suicides were framed as understandable reactions to public/social adversities, suggesting legitimate despair.

Conclusions:

In Italy, female suicide is often psychologized and deemed irrational, while male suicide is socially explained, viewed with empathy, and seen as a response to serious adversity.
The societal tendency to psychologize female suicide and socially contextualize male suicide may render male suicide more permissible and less stigmatized.
These cultural script differences could contribute to the higher suicide mortality observed in men.