RT Journal Article
T1 The association between Internet searches and actual suicide in Spain
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Suicidio - España - Estadísticas
K1 Economía - Aspectos psicológicos
AB High suicide rates are a major issue in Spain, to the extent that they are the main non-natural cause of death in this country. The present study analyses the relationship between Internet searches and actual suicide rates in Spain. For this purpose, we employ data from actual suicide rates and Google® searches for Spain, differencing by the means used to commit suicide. Our results show that suicide (“suicidio”) search term seems to be positively associated with higher total suicide rates, in addition to suicides using poison, suffocation and jumping. The suicide (“suicidio”) topic presents similar results to the suicide search term, and suicide by car crash also seems to be associated with Internet searches of this topic.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2023
FD 2023-10-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39332
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39332
LA eng
NO López-Agudo, L. A. y Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O. D. (2024). “The association between Internet searches and actual suicide in Spain”. The Journal of General Psychology, 151(2), 406-424.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16283
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026