TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Dysphoria, failure, and suicide: level of depressive symptoms moderates effects of failure on implicit thoughts of suicide and death
JO  - Journal of social and clinical psychology
A1  - Chatard, Armand
A1  - Selimbegović, Leila
A1  - Pyszczynski, Tom
A1  - Jaafari, Nematollah
SP  - 1
EP  - 21
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0736-7236
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2017.36.1.1
ID  - ref1
ER  -