@article{ref1,
title="Being certain that negative events will happen or that positive events will not happen: depressive predictive certainty and change in suicide ideation over time",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2021",
author="Rosario-Williams, Beverlin and Rombola, Christina and Miranda, Regina",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: Relatively little research has examined the precise components of hopelessness that increase vulnerability to suicidal thinking. We examined whether certainty about an absence of positive future outcomes (Certainty-AP) would more strongly predict suicide ideation over time than certainty about negative future outcomes (Certainty-N). <br><br>METHOD: Young adults (N = 208), ages 18-34 (M = 19.08, SD = 2.22), with either recent suicide ideation, suicide attempt history, or past-year psychiatric diagnosis were assessed four times over 18 months. <br><br>RESULTS: We used multilevel modeling to assess within-participant differences in suicide ideation over time. Both Certainty-AP and Certainty-N predicted later suicide ideation above and beyond generalized hopelessness and depressive symptoms, when examined in separate models. However, Certainty-AP emerged as a stronger predictor of suicide ideation than Certainty-N when examined in the same model. <br><br>DISCUSSION: These findings suggest that certainty about an absence of positive future outcomes may have a more unique prospective relationship to SI than certainty about the presence of negative future outcomes. We discuss clinical and theoretical implications of these findings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1111/sltb.12793",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12793"
}