Cyber mother's womb: Social support expectation in social network and emotional violence.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the expectation of social support in social networks and the exposure to emotional violence among nursing students. DESIGN AND METHODS: This study was conducted with 431 students of the Cukurova University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department. FINDINGS: There was a statistical difference between gender (p < 0.039) and time spent with family (p < 0.013). There was a statistically significant and positive weak correlation between the students' average total score on Social Support Expectation in Social Networks Scale and the average score of the frustration subscale (r = 0.123, p < 0.05). PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: Nursing students need to be educated about digital literacy, and a course that includes emotional mood management skills should be included in the nursing curriculum.

A retrospective examination of the content of violence in headlines of news related to individuals with mental disorders.

BACKGROUND: Headlines are usually read first. Since headlines are designed to be remarkable and memorable in terms of form and meaning, their impact on the positive or negative attitudes of the society towards individuals with mental illness may be greater than the news texts. AIMS: This study aimed to retrospectively examine and analyze the content of violence headlines related to people with mental disorders. METHOD: The study was designed to examine headlines retrospectively. Six-hundred-ten headlines on the websites of four nationally published newspapers in Turkey were reviewed. Headlines mentioned people with mental disorders and violent events. The News Headline Review Form was used to evaluate the headlines. Descriptive statistics, the chi-square test and logistic regression analysis were used in data analysis. RESULTS: It was determined that violent events in headlines were mostly associated with homicidal behaviors (72%; n = 439), self-harming behaviors (20.2%; n = 123) and exploitation by others (7.8%; n = 40), respectively. The most common actions in headlines were, within the homicidal behaviors, "murder" (30.4%; n = 186); within the self-harming behaviors, "commit suicide" (13.6%; n = 83) and within the exploitation-by-others category, "being murdered" (4.4%; n = 27). People with mental disorders were in an active position in three fourths of the headlines on violence/aggression (77.3%; n = 471). CONCLUSION: Headlines have the effect of normalizing the relationship between violence and mental disorders, which already exists in society. Portraying violence as a typical part of a mental disorder could create social perceptions that it is the nature of these individuals to exhibit violent behavior.

Turkish newspaper articles mentioning people with mental illness: A retrospective study.

BACKGROUND: Because a great majority of the public knows about mental disorders primarily through printed or visual media, the attitudes exhibited in mass media might be predictive in stigmatizing individuals with mental disorders. AIM: The aim of this study was to retrospectively assess the articles in Turkish newspapers that mention individuals with mental disorders. METHOD: This study was designed to retrospectively investigate and analyze newspaper content in Turkey; the newspapers' circulation information was collected by examining the websites of the four newspapers with above 1% of the total circulation. The News Evaluation Form was used to evaluate a sampling of articles that met the inclusion criteria of having appeared in the lifestyle and agenda pages of newspapers, and of using neutral or negative labeling keywords about psychiatric patients. RESULTS: Almost all the articles reviewed were negative toward individuals with mental disorders. Three quarters of the reports were forensic, among which two thirds of the individuals with mental disorders were criminalized, and one third were victims of crime. In approximately half of the news reports, most images were related to the news and were not protected. Although not all the articles contain stigmatizing elements directed toward people with mental disorders, two thirds of the subjects' images in the news were found to have stigmatizing elements. CONCLUSION: Media has an impact on attitudes toward people with mental disorders mostly negatively along with individual experiences and peer interactions.