@article{ref1,
title="Suicidal ideations and self-dehumanization in recently detoxified patients with severe alcohol use disorder: an experimental exploration through joint explicit-implicit measures",
journal="Journal of addictive diseases",
year="2023",
author="Fontesse, Sullivan and Chevallereau, Tina and Stinglhamber, Florence and Demoulin, Stéphanie and Fiorito, Anna and Chatard, Armand and Jaafari, Nemat and Maurage, Pierre",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Metadehumanization (the feeling of being considered as less than human by others) is a pervasive phenomenon in psychiatric states, notably promoting self-dehumanization and suicide antecedents. However, its role in suicidal ideations among patients with addictive disorders remains unexplored. We thus investigated the involvement of metadehumanization/self-dehumanization in suicidal ideations and suicidal thoughts interference in severe alcohol use disorder. <br><br>METHODS: We measured metadehumanization, suicidal ideations, and desire for social contact through questionnaires among 35 recently detoxified patients with severe alcohol use disorder (26 males). We measured animalistic/mechanistic self-dehumanization using an Implicit Association Task, and suicidal thoughts interference using a Stroop Task with suicide-related words. We performed regression analyses while controlling for depression/anxiety. <br><br>RESULTS: Animalistic self-dehumanization was positively associated with suicidal thoughts interference and with decreased desire for social interactions, such link being absent for metadehumanization or mechanistic self-dehumanization. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This link between self-dehumanization and suicide-related factors suggests that a reduced sense of belonging to humanity is associated with self-harm antecedents. <br><br>RESULTS also emphasize the importance of using indirect measures to investigate sensitive variables, such as self-dehumanization and suicidal thoughts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1055-0887",
doi="10.1080/10550887.2023.2292303",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10550887.2023.2292303"
}