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Do people know how suicidal they will be? Understanding suicidal prospection.
Coppersmith, Daniel D L; Jaroszewski, Adam C; Gershman, Samuel J; Cha, Christine B; Millner, Alexander J; Fortgang, Rebecca G; Kleiman, Evan M; Nock, Matthew K.
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  • Coppersmith DDL; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Jaroszewski AC; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Gershman SJ; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Cha CB; Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Millner AJ; Counseling & Clinical Psychology Department, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Fortgang RG; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Kleiman EM; Mental Health Research, Franciscan Children's, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Nock MK; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Suicide Life Threat Behav ; 54(4): 750-761, 2024 Aug.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38700375
ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION:

Little research has been done on how people mentally simulate future suicidal thoughts and urges, a process we term suicidal prospection.

METHODS:

Participants were 94 adults with recent suicidal thoughts. Participants completed a 42-day real-time monitoring study and then a follow-up survey 28 days later. Each night, participants provided predictions for the severity of their suicidal thoughts the next day and ratings of the severity of suicidal thoughts over the past day. We measured three aspects of suicidal prospection predicted levels of desire to kill self, urge to kill self, and intent to kill self. We generated prediction errors by subtracting participants' predictions of the severity of their suicidal thoughts from their experienced severity.

RESULTS:

Participants tended to overestimate (although the average magnitude was small and the modal error was zero) the severity of their future suicidal thoughts. The best fitting models suggested that participants used both their current suicidal thinking and previous predictions of their suicidal thinking to generate predictions of their future suicidal thinking. Finally, the average severity of predicted future suicidal thoughts predicted the number of days participants thought about suicide during the follow-up period.

CONCLUSIONS:

This study highlights prospection as a psychological process to better understand suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Ideación Suicida Límite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Suicide Life Threat Behav Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Ideación Suicida Límite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Suicide Life Threat Behav Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Reino Unido