BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1600134
This article is part of the Research TopicMultidimensional Approaches to Suicide Prevention: Innovations, Challenges, and Future DirectionsView all 12 articles
Technology, Isolation, and Drug Use: A Social Network Analysis of Suicide Risk
Provisionally accepted
Brenda Garcia Jarquin1
Mario Aguilar Fernández2
Marco Antonio Sánchez Medina3
IVAN ANTONIO GARCIA-MONTALVO3
Enrique López Ramírez3*- 1Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, México, Mexico
- 2Interdisciplinary Professional Unit of Engineering and Social and Administrative Sciences, National Polytechnic Institute, Ciudad de México, Mexico
- 3Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
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The purpose of this study is to identify the most influential variables in suicide among students, based on studies conducted from 2019 to 2024. Given the increase in suicide rates within this demographic group, 26 variables were identified, analyzed, and modeled in a social network. Indices of density, centrality, and closeness were used to assess the influence of each variable within the network. The results showed that the use of technologies, isolation, depression, and repeated exposure to traumatic experiences increase suicidal ideation and, therefore, the risk of suicide. These findings emphasize the need to develop multifaceted prevention programs tailored to student populations for more effective outcomes.
Keywords: Suicide, Risk factors, Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety
Received: 25 Mar 2025; Accepted: 26 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Garcia Jarquin, Aguilar Fernández, Sánchez Medina, GARCIA-MONTALVO and López Ramírez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Enrique López Ramírez, Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
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