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Article

Construction and Validation of an Analytical Grid about Video Representations of Suicide (“MoVIES”)

by
Christophe Gauld
1,*,
Marielle Wathelet
2,3,
François Medjkane
4,5,
Nathalie Pauwels
3,
Thierry Bougerol
1 and
Charles-Edouard Notredame
3,5
1
CHU Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France
2
Department of Public Health, CHU Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
3
Fédération de Recherche en Psychiatrie et Santé Mentale des Hauts-de-France, F-59000 Lille, France
4
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, CHU Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
5
SCALab, CNRS, UMR 9193, F-59000 Lille, France
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(15), 2780; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152780
Submission received: 5 July 2019 / Revised: 24 July 2019 / Accepted: 1 August 2019 / Published: 3 August 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Suicide: Prevention, Intervention and Postvention)
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Abstract

Background. Exposure to fictional suicide scenes raises concerns about the risk of suicide contagion. However, researchers and clinicians still lack empirical evidence to estimate this risk. Here, we propose a theory-grounded tool that measures properties related to aberrant identification and suicidal contagion of potentially harmful suicide scenes. Methods. The items of the Movies and Video: Identification and Emotions in reaction to Suicide (MoVIES) operationalize the World Health Organization’s recommendations for media coverage of suicide, and were adapted and completed with identification theory principles and cinematographic evidence. Inter-rater reliability (Cohen’s kappa) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) were estimated and optimized for two series of 19 and 30 randomly selected movies depicting a suicide scene. The validity of the scale in predicting identification with the suicidal character was tested in nine unknowledgeable participants who watched seven suicide movie scenes each. Results. The MoVIES indicated satisfying psychometric properties with kappas measured at 0.7 or more for every item and a global internal consistency of [α = 0.05]. The MoVIES score significantly predicted participants’ strength of identification independently from their baseline empathy ((β = 0.20), p < 0.05). Conclusions. The MoVIES is available to scholars as a valid, reliable, and useful tool to estimate the amount of at-risk components of fictional suicidal behavior depicted in films, series, or television shows.
Keywords: suicide; Werther effect; psychology of cinema; identification; emotion; vulnerability; imitation suicide; Werther effect; psychology of cinema; identification; emotion; vulnerability; imitation

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Gauld, C.; Wathelet, M.; Medjkane, F.; Pauwels, N.; Bougerol, T.; Notredame, C.-E. Construction and Validation of an Analytical Grid about Video Representations of Suicide (“MoVIES”). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 2780. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152780

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Gauld C, Wathelet M, Medjkane F, Pauwels N, Bougerol T, Notredame C-E. Construction and Validation of an Analytical Grid about Video Representations of Suicide (“MoVIES”). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(15):2780. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152780

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Gauld, Christophe, Marielle Wathelet, François Medjkane, Nathalie Pauwels, Thierry Bougerol, and Charles-Edouard Notredame. 2019. "Construction and Validation of an Analytical Grid about Video Representations of Suicide (“MoVIES”)" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 15: 2780. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152780

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Gauld, C., Wathelet, M., Medjkane, F., Pauwels, N., Bougerol, T., & Notredame, C.-E. (2019). Construction and Validation of an Analytical Grid about Video Representations of Suicide (“MoVIES”). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(15), 2780. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152780

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