Citation

Kaviani H, Rahimi-Darabad P, Naghavi HR. J. Psychopathol. Behav. Assess. 2005; 27(1): 39-44.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10862-005-3264-0

PMID

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Abstract

The underlying hypothesis was that suicide attempters tend to retrieve overgeneral autobiographical memories, with a considerable latency. Two cognitive measures (Autobiographical Memory Test and Means-Ends Problem-Solving Task, Persian versions) were used to assess 20 suicide patients who met DSM-IV criteria for depression, in comparison with a matched control group. The results showed that the suicide attempters produced more overgeneral memories and responded more slowly to positive than negative cue words, compared to the control participants. In the problem-solving task, the depressed patients evidenced less effective strategies, fewer and more irrelevant means, and took longer to respond to the task than the matched healthy participants. Moreover, there were significant correlations between autobiographical memory and problem-solving variables.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; Depression; Suicide; female; male; depression; suicide attempt; experience; association; article; controlled study; clinical article; psychologic assessment; problem solving; recall; psychological theory; Autobiographical memory; Problem-solving; diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; memory consolidation