Suicidal ideations and self-dehumanization in recently detoxified patients with severe alcohol use disorder: an experimental exploration through joint explicit-implicit measures.

Autor: Fontesse S; Louvain Experimental Psychopathology Research Group, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium., Chevallereau T; Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium., Stinglhamber F; Work and Organizational Psychology Lab, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium., Demoulin S; Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium., Fiorito A; Université de Lyon, Lyon, France., Chatard A; Université de Poitiers & CNRS, Poitiers, France.; Service Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Henri Laborit, Poitiers, France., Jaafari N; Service Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Henri Laborit, Poitiers, France., Maurage P; Louvain Experimental Psychopathology Research Group, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of addictive diseases [J Addict Dis] 2024 Oct-Dec; Vol. 42 (4), pp. 500-507. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 19.
DOI: 10.1080/10550887.2023.2292303
Abstrakt: 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.
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.
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.
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. Results also emphasize the importance of using indirect measures to investigate sensitive variables, such as self-dehumanization and suicidal thoughts.
Databáze: MEDLINE