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A model predicting suicidal ideation and hopelessness in depressed older adults
— the impact of emotion inhibition and affect intensity | | Author(s) | T R Lynch, J S Cheavens, J Q Morse |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 8, no 6, November 2004 |
| Pages | pp 486-497 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Depression ; Emotions ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to begin a preliminary examination of constructs theorised to be related to suicidal behaviour, by testing a model of the influence of both temperament and emotion regulation on suicidal ideation and hopelessness. The model was evaluated using structural equation modelling procedures with a sample of 77 depressed older people (mean age 69.5) recruited from the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Clinical Research Center (CRC) naturalistic study of late-life depression. Findings supported a temporally predictive model in which negative affect intensity and reactivity lead to emotion inhibition, operationalised as ambivalence over emotional expression and thought suppression, which in turn lead to increased presence of suicidal predictors, operationalised as hopelessness and suicidal ideation. These results suggest that suicide prevention efforts in older people may be improved by targeting emotion inhibition in treatment, especially among affectively intense and reactive older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041216206 A |
| Classmark | EV: ENR: DL: 49: 7T |
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