Mental Health Coping Stories on Social Media: A Causal-Inference Study of Papageno Effect

A considerable amount of literature [16, 25, 49] has studied The Papageno effect concerns how media can play a positive role and re-confirmed the harmful effect of media, dubbed the "Werther in preventing and mitigating suicidal ideation and behaviors. With effect" [38], describing a spike in suicides after a heavily publicized the increasing ubiquity and widespread use of social media, individuals suicide. However, there is much less research about the beneficial often express and share lived experiences and struggles effects of media, referred to as the "Papageno effect", describing a decrease with mental health. However, there is a gap in our understanding in suicides after reporting alternatives to suicide. Niederkrotenthaler about the existence and effectiveness of the Papageno effect in social et al. explored the possible protective effect of media media, which we study in this paper. In particular, we adopt a reporting about suicide [34]. This study finds a decrease in suicides, causal-inference framework to examine the impact of exposure to if reports of suicide related content portray ways of overcoming mental health coping stories on individuals on Twitter. We obtain suicidal ideation without narrating suicidal behaviors.