Citation

Turzo AP, Range LM. J. Appl. Soc. Psychol. 1991; 21(14): 1161-1168.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00464.x

PMID

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Abstract

To explore the relationship between mood and cognitive restraints to suicide, 98 undergraduates experienced the Velten mood‐induction procedure to induce an elated, depressed, or neutral (unchanged) mood. They then completed the Multiple Adjective Affect Checklist, the Coopersmith Self‐Esteem Inventory, and the Reasons for Living Inventory. Surprisingly, compared to neutral students, depressed students reported more overall reasons for living, greater feelings of responsibility to family, and more moral objections to suicide, and elated students reported more feelings of responsibility to family. Most responsive depressed students also had higher fear of suicide than others, and most responsive elated students had higher survival and coping beliefs than others.

RESULTS suggest that a mildly depressed mood caused students' increased reliance on cognitive beliefs about not committing suicide, and may indicate that mildly depressed persons might benefit from and be particularly receptive to cognitive interventions stressing beliefs about family and religious commitments. Copyright © 1991, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

Language: en