Suicide rates in South Korea and internationally following release of the Netflix series ‘Squid Game’
These findings indicate that SG did not produce Werther effects. Further studies are needed to confirm if this finding generally applies to entertainment media where suicides are included but not a major theme.
Authors
- Thomas Niederkrotenthaler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9550-628X)
- Vera Yu Men (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5593-7146)
- Mark Sinyor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7756-2584)
- Steven Stack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1312-9773)
- Sangsoo Shin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6698-2113)
- Jiyun Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2291-3623)
Institutions
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (CA)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Wayne State University (US)
- University of Baltimore (US)
- Medical University of Vienna (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Social Science & Medicine
- Published
- 2025-03-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117934
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.92