ArticleSuicide & life-threatening behavior2022
Examining multiple features of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal adults.
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- Testing the modifiability of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation and neurofeedback modulation during episodic future thinking for individuals with suicidal thoughts and behaviors.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Article
- Clinical and electrophysiological correlates of hopelessness in the context of suicide riskEuropean neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Induced optimism to lessen hopelessness-related cognitions among young adults at risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- Examining Highly Novel Positive Future Thinking in Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Adolescents.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchArticle
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Abstract
bckgroundTheories of suicide suggest that suicidal ideation (SI) results in part from difficulty imagining the future, which itself relies on the ability to remember the past. The present study examines multiple components of episodic future thinking and memory including event richness, which is commonly measured within the cognitive literature but has not previously been assessed with suicidal individuals.
methodsHere, we tested the associations between SI and episodic future thinking and episodic memory across two studies (Study 1, n = 25; Study 2, n = 141): the first with a healthy comparison group and the second with a psychiatric comparison group.
resultsFuture event richness yielded large but statistically non-significant deficits in the SI group relative to healthy controls in Study 1 after controling the false discovery rate. The most robust effects for future thinking emerged in the case of perceived duration of future events, such that the SI group (vs. psychiatric comparison) imagined future events as longer-lasting in Study 2. Across both studies, episodic memory was unrelated to SI, and neither episodic future thinking nor memory predicted future SI.
conclusionEpisodic future thinking may better distinguish individuals with SI history from psychiatric controls when compared with episodic memory, but that this effect is limited to select components of future thinking.
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