Negative affect influences suicide-specific attentional biases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies using tasks that measure suicide-specific attentional biases have not specified which attentional processes are related to risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. This study distinguished suicide-specific engagement and disengagement biases from other forms of cognitive processing and investigated under which affective conditions suicide-specific biases emerged.

Method

An ethnoracially and socioeconomically diverse sample of 153 young adults (87 % female; 52 % Non-Hispanic White), ages 18-34, with moderate-to-high symptoms of anxiety, depression, or recent suicide ideation were randomly assigned to experience positive, negative, or neutral affect, completed cognitive tasks of attention, construct accessibility, and threat bias, and self-report measures.<

SUBMITTER: Rosario-Williams B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11469581 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature