Mental health images on the InternetA Facebook and digital media content analysis in Spanish

  1. Cano-Orón, Lorena 1
  2. Vengut-Climent, Empar 1
  3. Moreno-Castro, Carolina 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Revista:
Prisma Social: revista de investigación social

ISSN: 1989-3469

Año de publicación: 2020

Título del ejemplar: La Cultura de las Organizaciones en la Era de la Digitalización

Número: 29

Páginas: 240-259

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

This work analyses the mental health image in Spanish in digital media and social networks after the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 32/18, on mental health and human rights, on July 1, 2016. A standardised content analysis was performed from a sample of 370 news items published during six months, between August 2016 and January 2017, to determine if the journalistic treatment of the stories was positive, negative, equidistant or institutional. Likewise, 352 Facebook pages were studied, with the same analysis criteria as digital media. Among the most outstanding results, it was found that only 53% (n = 196) of the articles analysed addressed mental health directly. Of them, 40% (n = 79) treated it positively while 26% (n = 50) still referred to mental health negatively. Besides, there was a high percentage of articles in which mental health was treated metaphorically, 18% (n = 35), also contributing negatively stories to the stigmatisation of mental illnesses. The analysis of the Facebook pages showed a low proportion of  positive treatment of mental health , only 5% (n = 18), and the content of 61% of the sample studied (n = 215) had nothing to do with mental health.

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This research was carried out under the framework of the ScienceShop of the SienceFlows-Team and funded by the 1st Social Research Scholarship "Media and Mental Health" organized by the Federation for Mental Health of Valencia and co-funded by the General Directorate Functional diversity, dependent on the Department of Equality and Inclusive Policies through the program "Action plans for social research activities on functional diversity".

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