Risk for Suicide Among Treatment Seeking Adolescents: The Role of Positive and Negative Affect Intensity

Rojas, Sasha M.; Leen‐Feldner, Ellen W.; Blumenthal, Heidemarie; Lewis, Penelope A.; Feldner, Matthew T.

doi:10.1007/s10608-014-9650-8

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“…High frequency and intensity of positive emotions, low frequency and intensity of negative emotions, instability of positive and negative emotions, and low emotional clarity have been associated with poor psychological outcomes in adolescents, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality (e.g., Rojas, Leen-Feldner, Blumenthal, Lewis, & Feldner, 2015;Salguero, Palomera, & Fernández-Berrocal, 2012;Silk, Steinberg, & Morris, 2003;van Roekel et al, 2016). The exploration of normative patterns of adolescent emotional development in the present review will hopefully pave the way to a better understanding of abnormal emotional experience, thus informing treatment research and clinical work.…”

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Understanding Emotion in Adolescents: A Review of Emotional Frequency, Intensity, Instability, and Clarity

2018

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Adolescence is a time of transition from childhood to adulthood during which significant changes occur across multiple domains, including emotional experience. This article reviews the relevant literature on adolescents’ experience of four specific dimensions of emotion: emotional frequency, intensity, instability, and clarity. In an effort to examine how emotional experiences change as individuals approach adulthood, we examine these dimensions across ages 10 to 19, and review how the emotional functioning of adolescents compares to that of adults. In addition, we explore whether and how gender and puberty explain age differences in emotional experience. Finally, we discuss how these findings could inform future research on both the typical trajectory of emotional experience and the development of psychopathology in adolescence.

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Understanding Emotion in Adolescents: A Review of Emotional Frequency, Intensity, Instability, and Clarity

2018

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“…For instance, a number of authors have suggested that negative affectivity (i.e., the tendency to experience a wide range of negative emotions) is strongly linked to narcissism, since the instability of the perception of one's value is fluctuating and strongly dependent on feedbacks from the outside world (Rhodenwalt, Madrian & Cheeney, 1998). Furthermore, considering that depressive symptoms and negative affectivity are considered considerable risk factors for suicide ideation and behaviors (Mackenzie et al, 2011;Rojas et al, 2015), along with the fact that depression is the most common diagnosis among young adult suicidal people (Brent et al, 2002), we hypothesize that negative affectivity may act as a confounding variable in the relationship between narcissism and suicide ideation.…”

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Emotion dysregulation acts in the relationship between vulnerable narcissism and suicidal ideation

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Scandinavian J Psychology

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Suicide behaviors are peculiar aspects of several cluster B disorders, including Narcissistic Personality Disorder. To date, it is still unclear which facet of narcissism is more related to the desire to die and which other factors are involved in this relationship. This study aims to offer preliminary empirical evidences concerning the relationship between narcissism, emotion dysregulation and suicide ideation. We administered the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), PID‐5‐BF (Personality Inventory for DSM‐5‐Short Form) and Beck Scale for Suicide ideation (BSI) to a sample of individuals with suicide ideation (n = 70) and a sample of community participants (n = 154). Controlling for age, gender and Negative Affectivity, we found that BSI scores correlated significantly with the vulnerable dimension of narcissism, but not with the grandiose one, and with all DERS dimension, apart from Awareness. Nevertheless, emotion dysregulation moderates the relationship between vulnerable narcissism and suicide ideation. Suicide ideation seems to be deeply connected with the vulnerable dimension of pathological narcissism and the relationship between the constructs is totally mediated by emotion dysregulation. Future directions and clinical implications are discussed.

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“…That is, people can take control of their mood states, regulate how much and how long particular mood states will persist, and regulate the expression of particular moods”. Among treatment seeking adolescents it was found that difficulties in experiencing positive affect and a high intensity of negative affect was correlated with increased suicidality [ 20 ]. Dysfunctional processing of autobiographical memories such as bias for negative emotional memories and difficulties in retrieving positive memories is also found in depressed adults [ 21 ].…”

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Mood Regulation Focused CBT Based on Memory Reconsolidation, Reduced Suicidal Ideation and Depression in Youth in a Randomised Controlled Study

Högberg¹,

Hällström

2018

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Suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in adolescence are considered to be related to suicide and psychiatric adversity later in life. Secondary prevention by improving the treatment of suicidal youth is a distinct possibility. In this study, treatment with a systematised mood-regulation focused cognitive behavioural therapy (MR-CBT) (n = 15) was compared with treatment as usual (TAU) (n = 12) in a group of depressed adolescents in a clinical setting. MR-CBT focuses on mood regulation by means of counter conditioning with memory reconsolidation being the proposed mechanism of change. Subjects practice keeping emotionally positive memories to diminish the emotional impact of negative memories. Symptoms of depression were tested with a short version of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ), and wellbeing with the World Health Organization 5 Wellbeing Index (WHO-5). Suicidal events were rated according to the clinical interview Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS). Suicidal events at the end of treatment were significantly reduced in the MR-CBT group, but not in the TAU group. Depression and wellbeing improved significantly in both treatment groups. While far from conclusive, the results are encouraging enough to suggest that further studies should be undertaken to examine whether psychotherapy focusing on mood regulation for young individuals at risk might enhance secondary prevention of suicide.

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Risk for Suicide Among Treatment Seeking Adolescents: The Role of Positive and Negative Affect Intensity

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Understanding Emotion in Adolescents: A Review of Emotional Frequency, Intensity, Instability, and Clarity

Understanding Emotion in Adolescents: A Review of Emotional Frequency, Intensity, Instability, and Clarity

Emotion dysregulation acts in the relationship between vulnerable narcissism and suicidal ideation

Mood Regulation Focused CBT Based on Memory Reconsolidation, Reduced Suicidal Ideation and Depression in Youth in a Randomised Controlled Study

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