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Use Of The Modified Emotional Stroop Task To Detect Suicide Risk In College Students, Yeunjoo Chung
Use Of The Modified Emotional Stroop Task To Detect Suicide Risk In College Students, Yeunjoo Chung
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It is a challenge to detect those who are at potential risk for suicide because the base rate of suicidal behaviors in non-clinical samples is low. The aim of the present study was to investigate the concurrent and predictive validity of the emotional Stroop task (EST) as a behavioral marker for suicidal behaviors in a college population. Eight hundred and twenty students were asked to perform the EST and to respond to suicide-related self-report measures and were followed up with18 months later. The results indicated that participants with past suicide attempts had longer response latencies to the word "suicide" as …