Testing the modifiability of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents.

Autor: Goger P; Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University New York New York USA., Nam RJ; Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University New York New York USA., Lowry N; Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University New York New York USA., Bell KA; Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University New York New York USA., Parvez N; Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University New York New York USA., Pollak OH; Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University New York New York USA., Robinaugh DJ; Department of Psychology Northeastern University Boston Massachusetts USA., Schacter DL; Department of Psychology Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts USA., Cha CB; Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University New York New York USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: JCPP advances [JCPP Adv] 2024 Apr 08; Vol. 4 (3), pp. e12236. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 08 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1002/jcv2.12236
Abstrakt: Background: Despite increased attention on treatment and prevention for suicidal adolescents, we know little about potential intervention targets. Episodic future thinking-the ability to imagine detailed, personal, and future-oriented events-is a modifiable cognitive process that has been linked with suicidal ideation (SI) in adolescents. However, until now its modifiability has only been tested in adults.
Method: Adolescents ( N  = 176, ages 15-19; 71% SI) completed performance-based measures of episodic future thinking (i.e., Experimental Recombination Paradigm) and memory immediately before and after an Episodic Specificity Induction (ESI).
Results: Adolescents produced a greater number of future episodic details after (vs. before) the ESI but showed no change in non-episodic details (e.g., semantic information). Patterns of change in episodic future thinking were not moderated by SI history. Adolescents overall did not demonstrate change in past episodic detail counts after the ESI. However, there were select moderating effects of SI history on this effect.
Conclusion: Results show that episodic future thinking can change immediately following an episodic specificity induction among adolescents, regardless of whether they have previously experienced SI. This demonstration of within-person change constitutes a foundational first step in examining malleability of episodic future thinking in adolescents and offers preliminary evidence of a cognitive mechanism that may be leveraged in service of reducing adolescents' SI.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared they have no competing or potential conflicts of interest.
(© 2024 The Authors. JCPP Advances published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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