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LUCAS, Lorena Schettino; BONOMO, Mariana  e  VALENTIM, Joaquim Pires. Social representations of suicide: a study with comments from Twitter users. Psicologia [online]. 2024, vol.38, n.2, pp.15-32.  Epub 31-Dez-2024. ISSN 0874-2049.  https://doi.org/10.17575/psicologia.1940.

This study identified the shared field, the organizing principles and the psychosocial anchoring of social representations of suicide among Twitter users. 3302 comments from Twitter users were collected in 103 reports on suicide published by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo on Twitter. 425 profiles of the users who wrote the comments were identified and data was collected regarding their political orientations. The results were systematized through Descending Hierarchical Classification and Correspondence Factor Analysis and indicated the presence of three organizing principles of the meanings linked to the suicide object: science, religion and politics. The discussion focused on the science versus religion duality in the organization of the representational field of suicide and the political affiliations of Twitter users as privileged psychosocial anchoring points.

Palavras-chave : Suicide; Social representations; Organizing principles; Psychosocial anchoring; Social media.

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