Florian Arendt - Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research

Wiener Werkstætte Publications

2023

Arendt F, Markiewitz A, Scherr S. (2023). News for life: Improving the quality of journalistic news reporting to prevent suicides. Journal of Communication, 73(1), 73-85. 10.1093/joc/jqac039.

Arendt F, Mestas M. (2023). Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 320, 115747. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115747.

Arendt F, Till B, Voracek M, Kirchner S, Sonneck G, Naderer B, Pürcher P, Niederkrotenthaler T. (2023). ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, and suicide prevention: A call for a targeted and concerted research effort. Crisis 44(5):367-370. 10.1027/0227-5910/a000915.

Mestas M, Arendt F. (2023). A longitudinal dynamic perspective on quality in journalism: Investigating the long-term macro-level media effect of suicide reporting on suicide rates across a century. Communication Research. Advance Online Publication. 10.1177/00936502221150315.

Till B, Arendt F, Rothauer P, Niederkrotenthaler T. (2023). The Role of the Narrative in Educative Suicide Awareness Materials: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Health Communication, 19;1-14. Online ahead of print. 10.1080/10410236.2023.2167580.

2022

Arendt F, Markiewitz A, Scherr S. (2022). News for life: Improving the quality of journalistic news reporting to prevent suicides. Journal of Communication. Advance online publication.

Arendt F, Mestas M. (2022). Celebrity suicide of a pre-world war I spy: Colonel Redl and the Werther effect. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 43(2), 112-118.

Niederkrotenthaler T, Till B, Kirchner S, Sinyor M, Braun M, Pirkis J, Tran US, Voracek M, Arendt F, Ftanou M, Kovacs R, King K, Schlichthorst M, Stack S, Spittal MJ. (2022). Effects of media stories of hope and recovery on suicidal ideation and help-seeking attitudes and intentions: Systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Lancet Public Health, 7(2), e156-e168. 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00274-7.

Scherr S, Arendt F, Haim M. (2022). Algorithms without frontiers? How language-based algorithmic information disparities for suicide crisis information sustain digital divides over time in 17 countries. Information, Communication and Society. Online ahead of print.

2021

Arendt F. (2021). Assessing responsible reporting on suicide in the nineteenth century: Evidence for a high quantity of low-quality news. Death Studies, 45(4), 305-312.

Arendt F, Markiewitz A, Scherr S. (2021). Investigating suicide-related subliminal messages on Instagram: A frame-by-frame analysis of video posts. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention,42(4), 263–269.

Arendt F, Mestas M. (2021). Celebrity suicide of a pre-World War I spy: Colonel Redl and the Werther effect. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. Advance Online Publication. 10.1027/0227-5910/a000762.

Arendt F, Mestas M, Forrai M. (2021). Uncovering blind spots in the intention to provide adequate help to suicidal individuals: An exploratory web-based experiment. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention.

Markiewitz A, Arendt F, Scherr S. (2021). Verantwortungsvolle Berichterstattung über Suizide: Forschungsüberblick und Empfehlungen für die journalistische Praxis. Medien Journal, 44(3), 50-68. 10.24989/medienjournal.v44i3.1804.

Mestas M, Arendt F. (2021). Celebrity suicide and forced responsible reporting in the nineteenth century: Crown Prince Rudolf and the absence of a Werther Effect. Health Communication. Advance Online Publication

Scherr S, Arendt F, Prieler M, Ju Y. (2021). Investigating the negative-cognitive-triad-hypothesis of news choice in Germany and South Korea: Does depression predict selective exposure to negative news? The Social Science Journal. 10.1080/03623319.2020.1859817.

Scherr S, Haim M, Arendt F. (2021). How search engines may help reduce drug-related suicides. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 226, 108874.

Till B, Arendt F, Niederkrotenthaler T. (2021). Effects of media portrayals of alleged malpractice in psychiatry and response strategies to mitigate reputational dam- age: Randomized controlled trial. J Psychiatr. Res. 138:456-62.

2020

Arendt F. (2020). The opioid-overdose crisis and fentanyl: The role of online information seeking via internet search engines. Health Communication. Advance Online Publication.

Arendt F. (2020). The press and suicides in the nineteenth century: Investigating possible imitative effects in five territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 81, 424-435.

Arendt F, Haim M, Scherr S. (2020). Investigating Google’s suicide-prevention efforts in celebrity suicides using agent-based testing: A cross-national study in four European countries. Social Science & Medicine. Advance Online Publication

Arendt F, Markiewitz A, Mestas M, Scherr S. (2020). COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries. Social Science & Medicine, 265, 113532. Advance Online Publication.

Arendt F, Markiewitz A, Scherr S. (2020). Investigating suicide-related subliminal messages on Instagram: A frame-by-frame analysis of video posts. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. Advance Online Publication

Markiewitz A, Arendt F, Scherr S. (2020). #suizid. Zur Darstellung von Suizid in sozialen Netzwerken und den möglichen Auswirkungen auf Jugendliche. KJug, 65, 19-25.

Markiewitz A, Arendt F, Scherr S. (2020). Increasing adherence to media guidelines on responsible reporting on suicide: Suggestions from qualitative interviews with German journalists. Journalism Studies, 21, 494-511.

Markiewitz A, Arendt F, Scherr S. (2020). Problematische Suizid- und Selbstverletzungsdarstellungen auf Instagram: Inhaltsanalytische Evidenz und aktuelle Entwicklungen. In: A. Kalch & A. Wagner (Hrsg.), Gesundheitskommunikation und Digitalisierung: Zwischen Lifestyle, Prävention und Krankheitsversorgung. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Niederkrotenthaler T, Braun M, Pirkis J, Till B, Stack S, Sinyor M, Tran US, Voracek M, Cheng Q, Arendt F, Scherr S, Yip PSF, Spittal M. (2020). Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis. British Medical Journal, 368:m575. 10.1136/bmj.m575.

Till B, Arendt F, Zeiler M, Zechmeister-Koss I, Nowotny M, Fox A, Grabenhofer-Eggerth A. (2020). Forschungs- und Präventionsaspekte im Public Mental Health Bereich – Symposium der ÖGPH-Kompetenzgruppe Public Mental Health [Research and prevention ascpects in public mental health – symposium of the ÖGPH competence group public mental health]. Das Gesundheitswesen, 82, 445-446. (abstract).

2019

Arendt F. (2019). Assessing responsible reporting on suicide in the nineteenth century: Evidence for a high quantity of low-quality news. Death Studies. Advance Online Publication.

Arendt F. (2019). Suicide on Instagram: Content analysis of a German suicide-related hashtag. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 40, 36-41.

Arendt F, Romer D. (2019). Problems posed by the Werther effect as a “net effect”: A comment on recent scholarly work on the effects of “13 Reasons Why”. British Journal of Psychiatry. Advance Online Publication.

Arendt F, Scherr S, Pasek J, Jamieson P, Romer D. (2019). Investigating harmful and helpful effects of watching season 2 of 13 Reasons Why: Results of a two-wave U.S. panel survey. Social Science & Medicine, 232, 489-498.

Arendt F, Scherr S, Romer D. (2019). Effects of exposure to self-harm on social media: Evidence from a two-wave panel study among young adults. New Media & Society, 21, 2422-2442.

Scherr S, Arendt F, Frissen T, Oramas J. (2019). Detecting intentional self-harm on Instagram: Development, testing, and validation of an automatic image-recognition algorithm to discover cutting-related posts. Social Science Computer Review, 21, 562-582.

Scherr S, Haim M, Arendt F. (2019). Equal access to online information? Google’s suicide-prevention disparities may amplify a global digital divide. New Media & Society, 21, 562–582.

Scherr S, Markiewitz A, Arendt F. (2019). Effectiveness of a workshop intervention on responsible reporting on suicide among Swiss media professionals. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 40, 446-450

Till B, Arendt F, Scherr S, Niederkrotenthaler T. (2019). Effect of educative suicide prevention news articles featuring experts with vs without personal experience of suicidal ideation: A randomized controlled trial of the Papageno effect. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 80(1), 17m11975. 10.4088/JCP.17m11975.

2018

Arendt F. (2018). Framing suicide: Investigating the news media and public’s use of the problematic suicide referents Freitod and Selbstmord in German-speaking countries. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 39, 70-73.

Arendt F. (2018). Reporting on suicide between 1819 and 1944: Suicide rates, the press, and possible long-term Werther effects in Austria. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 39, 344-352.

Arendt F. (2018). Suicide rates and information seeking via search engines: A cross-national correlational approach. Death Studies, 42, 508-512.

Arendt F, Scherr S, Niederkrotenthaler T, Krallmann S, Till B. (2018). Effects of awareness material on suicide-related knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to suicidal individuals. Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 39(1), 47-54. 10.1027/0227-5910/a000474.

Arendt F, Scherr S, Niederkrotenthaler T, Till B. (2018). The role of language in suicide reporting: Investigating the influence of problematic suicide referents. Social Science & Medicine, 208, 165-171. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.008.

Till B, Wild TA, Arendt F, Scherr S, Niederkrotenthaler T. (2018). Associations of tabloid newspaper use with endorsement of suicide myths, suicide-related knowledge, and stigmatizing attitudes toward suicidal individuals. Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 39(6), 428-437. 10.1027/0227-5910/a000516.

2017

Arendt F, Scherr S. (2017). A qualitative study on health practitioners’ subjective theories regarding the media effects on depression-related outcomes. Suicidology Online, 8, 78-88.

Arendt F, Scherr S. (2017). Optimizing online suicide prevention: A search engine-based tailored approach. Health Communication, 32, 1403-1408.

Arendt F, Scherr S. (2017). The impact of a highly publicized celebrity suicide on suicide-related online information seeking. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 38, 207-209.

Arendt F, Scherr S, Till B, Prinzellner Y, Hines K, Niederkrotenthaler T. (2017). Suicide on TV: minimising the risk to vulnerable viewers. British Medical Journal, 358, j3876. 10.1136/bmj.j3876.

Haim M, Arendt F, Scherr S. (2017). Abyss or shelter? On the relevance of web search engines’ search results when people google for suicide. Health Communication, 32, 253-258.

Scherr S, Arendt F, Schäfer M. (2017). Supporting reporting: On the positive effects of text- and video-based awareness material on responsible journalistic suicide news writing. Archives of Suicide Research, 21, 646-658.

2016

Arendt F, Karsay K, Soffried T. (2016). Werbung mit idealisierten Körperdarstellungen: Effekte auf die Unzufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Körper und die Ablehnung von Schönheitsoperationen. Medien Journal, 40(1), 29-42.

Arendt F, Till B, Niederkrotenthaler T. (2016). Effects of suicide awareness material on implicit suicide cognition: A laboratory experiment. Health Communication, 31(6), 718-726. 10.1080/10410236.2014.993495.

Haim M, Arendt F, Scherr S. (2016). Zum Einfluss von Suchmaschinen-Algorithmen auf das Erscheinen von Hinweisen zur Telefonseelsorge bei erhöhter Suizidalität. In A. Camerini, R. Ludolph, & F. Rothenfluh (Hrsg.), Gesundheitskommunikation im Spannungsfeld zwischen Theorie und Praxis (pp. 224–234). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

2015

Niederkrotenthaler T, Arendt F, Till B. (2015). Predicting intentions to read suicide awareness stories: The role of depression and characteristics of the suicidal role model. Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 36(6), 399-406. 10.1027/0227-5910/a000344.