Description:1 Passive suicidal ideation (SI) afflicts 10.6% of the population in pooled epidemiological samples. In contrast to traditional suicidology, critical suicide studies interrogate structural/systemic drivers of disparities in SI, implicating policy-level determinants and stigmatizing political rhetorics. The subdiscipline focuses on:
Language, discourse, power relations, and social histories….ways of being ‘selves’ and ideas about life, death and suicide are not settled but are always being (re)produced and co-constituted…within specific, social historical, cultural and political contexts.2
This study examines contemporary American bodily autonomy reversal (BAR) policymaking, unwinding access to abortion and gender-affirming healthcare, as a time-variant driver of SI. Leveraging I.) Transformer-based pretrained language models; II.) time series and event study estimation, and III.) reflexive thematic analysis, with ~1M Reddit submissions by BAR-targeted post authors, the collective suicidogenic toll of BAR anticipation and enactment will be modeled among cisgender women, transgender, gender-diverse, and all pregnancy-capable people.
A pre-analysis plan is forthcoming on the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/uc4kh/.
Footnotes
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Mirrors the language at https://osf.io/z2wra/ ↩
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White J. What can critical suicidology do? Death Stud. 2017;41(8):472-480. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1332901 ↩