@article{ref1,
title="Dysphoria, failure, and suicide: level of depressive symptoms moderates effects of failure on implicit thoughts of suicide and death",
journal="Journal of social and clinical psychology",
year="2017",
author="Chatard, Armand and Selimbegović, Leila and Pyszczynski, Tom and Jaafari, Nematollah",
volume="36",
number="1",
pages="1-21",
abstract="Building on escape and terror management theories, we reasoned that after failure the desire to escape the self (as reflected in suicide-thought accessibility) would dominate among dysphoric students, while fear of death (as indexed by death-thought accessibility) would dominate among nondysphoric students. The present study (N = 82 college students) examined this hypothesis. As expected, dysphoric students showed greater accessibility of suicide-related thoughts than of death-related thoughts after failure to attain a high standard of intelligence. In contrast, in the same situation, nondysphoric students showed greater accessibility of death- related thoughts than of suicide-related thoughts. The results suggest that dysphoric individuals are particularly vulnerable to suicide-related thoughts after failure, indicating that desire to escape may surpass death anxiety in this context. These results offer a fine-grained analysis of the impact of failure on implicit thoughts of death and suicide and help to reconcile divergent findings in the literature. Practical implications are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0736-7236",
doi="10.1521/jscp.2017.36.1.1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2017.36.1.1"
}