@article{ref1,
title="Fluidity in capability: longitudinal assessments of suicide capability using ecological momentary assessments",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2023",
author="Bayliss, Luke T. and Hughes, Christopher D. and Lamont-Mills, Andrea and du Plessis, Carol",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: Suicide capability is posited to facilitate the movement from ideation-to-action. Emerging evidence suggests capability comprises both trait- and state-like facets. This study examined fluctuations in and associations of acquired, dispositional, practical, and perceived capabilities, and suicidal mental imagery, and suicidal ideation. <br><br>METHOD: Seventy-five adults (48 females, Mage = 36.53 years) with lived experience of suicidal ideation and/or attempt responded to four prompts per day for 2 weeks that assessed suicide capability and suicidal ideation. Mean-squared successive differences and probability of acute change indices and multilevel models were used for analyses. <br><br>RESULTS: All facets of suicide capability fluctuated. Acquired and dispositional capabilities were trait-like, with practical and perceived capabilities being state-like. Suicidal mental imagery was the only facet of suicide capability that distinguished participants with a suicide attempt in the past 12 months from participants with a suicide attempt more than 1 year ago and suicide ideators. Suicidal mental imagery was associated with concurrent suicidal ideation and predictive of next assessment suicidal ideation. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Suicidal mental imagery may be uniquely associated with suicide capability. This study suggests there are trait- and state-like facets of capability that can combine to potentially ready an individual to engage in suicidal behaviors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1111/sltb.13025",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13025"
}