Young people who see images of cutting on Instagram are more likely to hurt themselves by imitating the act, and are also at higher risk for suicide, a new study suggests.
The research, led by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center in the United States, the University of Vienna in Austria, and the University of Leuven in Belgium, was published on May 27, 2019, in the journal New Media & Society.
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