Person-specific dynamics between negative emotions and suicidal thoughts.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Recent technology has enabled researchers to collect ecological momentary assessments (EMA) to examine within-person correlates of suicidal thoughts. Prior studies examined generalized temporal dynamics of emotions and suicidal thinking over brief periods, but it is not yet known how variable these processes are across people.

Method

We use data EMA data delivered over two weeks with youth/young adults (N = 60) who reported past year self-injurious thoughts/behaviors. We used group iterative multiple model estimation (GIMME) to model group- and person-specific associations of negative emotions (i.e., fear, sadness, shame, guilt, and anger) and suicidal thoughts.

Results

29 participants (48.33%) reported at least one instance of a suicidal thought and were

SUBMITTER: Kuehn KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11875210 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature