Examining multiple features of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal adults.

ABSTRACT:

Bckground

Theories of suicide suggest that suicidal ideation (SI) results in part from difficulty imagining the future, which itself relies on the ability to remember the past. The present study examines multiple components of episodic future thinking and memory including event richness, which is commonly measured within the cognitive literature but has not previously been assessed with suicidal individuals.

Methods

Here, we tested the associations between SI and episodic future thinking and episodic memory across two studies (Study 1, n = 25; Study 2, n = 141): the first with a healthy comparison group and the second with a psychiatric comparison group.

Results

Future event richness yielded large but statistically non-significant deficits in the SI group relative to

SUBMITTER: Cha CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9233069 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature