Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Adolescent mental health issues and self-harm behaviors are serious public health and safety concerns faced globally. With the widespread use of the internet in modern society, the Choking Game has emerged as a new form of enticement, posing a severe threat to the lives of adolescents. This study examines the patterns of such games and finds that they exploit adolescent psychological characteristics, capitalize on mental crises, and employ a step-by-step escalation mechanism combined with the glorification of death imagery, thereby causing significant harm to adolescents' mental and physical health and impacting public safety. Based on this, this paper proposes emphasizing the primary role of schools in the prevention and control of death games, establishing clear criteria for identifying death games, and constructing a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder-participation standardized prevention and control procedure for death games (education and prevention—survey and identification—intervention and protection—post-incident handling and resolution) to achieve the ultimate goal of maintaining campus public safety, protecting the physical and mental health of adolescents, and safeguarding their well-being.
Author: Shiqi Wang
Institution: Shandong Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414145837