Publicación:

Significados psicológicos acerca del suicidio y su vinculación discursiva en la Red Social Facebook en un grupo de estudiantes de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Resumen

Suicide is the third leading cause of death in young people between the ages of 15 and 19, it is considered a public health problem (OMS, 2019). In Colombia the mortality rate in relation to this cause rises considerably, finding young people as part of the vulnerable population and prone to this type of behavior. Technological advances and the incursion of social networks have changed the forms of communication at present, thus allowing the expression of experiences in which much of the time it is usually risky for who can access these media. For this reason, this research work focused on understanding the psychological meanings that young people construct about suicide and its discursive link with social networks, especially with the social network Facebook. For this, a qualitative study was carried out in a group of young university students from the city of Pereira, to whom a semi-structured interview is applied as an instrument for collecting information.