The Relationship Between Future Self-Continuity and Suicide Risk in Military Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22158139
AutoresY Sokol (0000-0003-1536-853X, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, autor de correspondencia), Emily Knapic (University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Chynna Levin (0000-0001-7691-0172, James J. Peters VA Medical Center), Chana Silver (0000-0003-1754-4971, James J. Peters VA Medical Center), Shifra Hubner (0000-0003-4231-5812, James J. Peters VA Medical Center), Sarah Cole (0000-0003-4608-0715, James J. Peters VA Medical Center), Ariana Dichiara (0000-0003-1293-5105, James J. Peters VA Medical Center), Marianne Goodman (0000-0002-5465-9527, James J. Peters VA Medical Center)
Año2022
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas120-127
Fecha de publicación2022-09-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Veterans Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2470-4768 • E-ISSN: 2470-4768
EditorialVirginia Tech Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21061/jvs.v8i3.318
OpenAlexW4312743576
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas14

Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) have an increased risk for suicide. A lack of Future-Self Continuity (FSC), which refers to the sense of “psychological connectedness” that a person has between their present and future selves, has also been associated with suicide risk. For this study, 308 U.S. military veterans, 39 of whom self-reported a TBI, completed a series of questionnaires to assess future self-continuity and suicidality. The results replicated previous findings in that TBI and low future self-continuity were individually associated with increased suicidality. Additionally, future self-continuity was found to have a moderating effect on TBI, in that TBI was associated with increased suicide risk only when future self-continuity was low or moderate. When future self-continuity was high, TBI was not associated with increased suicide risk. Examination of the three subcomponents of future self-continuity revealed that FSC-Vividness and FSC-Positivity moderated the TBI-suicidality relationship, while FSC-Similarity had no significant moderating effect. These results suggest that high future self-continuity may be a protective factor for suicide risk among veterans with a TBI diagnosis. Understanding this relationship between TBI, future self-continuity, and suicidality could help enhance suicide prevention efforts

Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Poison control · Protective factor · Psychiatry · Social connectedness · Suicide prevention · Suicide Risk · Traumatic brain injury · Clinical Psychology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Internal Medicine