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

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Risk for suicide among adolescents remains a serious public health concern. Despite the relevance of individual differences in affective experience to clinically relevant problems generally, and risk for suicide more specifically, relatively little work has evaluated affect intensity in relation to adolescent risk for suicide. To address this notable gap in the literature, the current study evaluated the unique associations between dimensions of affect intensity and risk for suicide in a sample of 165 treatment-seeking adolescents ages 13–17 years. As predicted, low positive affectivity and high negative affect intensity accounted for unique variance in adolescent suicide risk. Findings are discussed in terms of the theoretical and applied implications of both positive and negative affect intensity in the context of adolescent risk for suicide.

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  1. Regression analyses also were conducted without covariates to check if results were due to a suppression situation related to covariates (Tzelgov and Henik 1991). This approach did not change the pattern of results.

  2. To explore possible interactions between facets of affect intensity in relation to suicide risk we also repeated the hierarchical regression analyses with each possible interaction term entered (one per regression analysis) after entering covariates and main effects (i.e., PA × NI; PA × NR; NI × NR). Results regarding the interaction terms (i.e., t values ranging between −.593 and −.185) suggested small effects (ΔR2 ranging between .000 and .001) that did not reach statistical significance (p values ranging between .55 and .87.

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Sasha Rojas, Ellen Leen-Feldner, Heidemarie Blumenthal, Sarah Lewis, and Matthew Feldner declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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    Sasha M. Rojas, Ellen W. Leen-Feldner & Matthew T. Feldner

  2. Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311280, Denton, TX, 76203, USA

    Heidemarie Blumenthal

  3. Center for Research, Assessment, and Treatment Efficacy (CReAte), Asheville, NC, 28802, USA

    Sarah F. Lewis

  4. Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 South Yale Avenue, Tulsa, OK, 74136, USA

    Matthew T. Feldner

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Rojas, S.M., Leen-Feldner, E.W., Blumenthal, H. et al. Risk for Suicide Among Treatment Seeking Adolescents: The Role of Positive and Negative Affect Intensity. Cogn Ther Res 39, 100–109 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-014-9650-8

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