Prospective Relations between Life Stress, Emotional Clarity, and Suicidal Ideation in an Adolescent Clinical Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although life stress has been linked to adolescent suicidal ideation, most past research has been cross-sectional, and potential processes characterizing this relation remain unclear. One possibility may be a lack of emotional clarity. Informed by stress generation, the current study examined prospective relations between episodic life stress, lack of emotional clarity, and suicidal ideation in an adolescent clinical sample.

Methods

The sample consisted of 180 youths (M_age = 14.89; SD = 1.35; 71.7% female; 78.9% White; 43.0% sexual minority) recruited from a psychiatric inpatient facility. Suicidal ideation severity was assessed at baseline and 18-month follow-up. Lack of emotional clarity and life stress were assessed at baseline, as well

SUBMITTER: Lopez R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11527798 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature