Childhood Maltreatment, Emotional Response Inhibition, and Suicide in Psychiatric Inpatients.

ABSTRACT: Childhood abuse and/or neglect adversely influences development of neurocognitive systems that regulate affect and behavior. Poor inhibitory control over emotional reactions is thus one potential pathway from maltreatment to suicide. Adult psychiatric inpatients completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and an emotional stop-signal task indexing negative emotional action termination (NEAT): the ability to inhibit ongoing motor reactions to aversive stimuli triggered by negative affect. Clinical interviews assessed suicidal thoughts and behaviors during hospitalization (n = 131) and at follow-up assessments 6 months later (n = 87). Our primary aim was to examine whether maltreatment history and NEAT explain overlapping variance in suicidal behaviors (1) retrospectively and (2) 6 months f

SUBMITTER: Allen KJD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8531534 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature