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- Title
Adaptation of an Emotional Stroop Test for Screening of Suicidal Ideation in Portugal.
- Authors
Esgalhado, Graça; Pereira, Henrique; Silva, Patricia
- Abstract
Cognitive instruments, especially those with emotional components, may be useful to address the limitations of self-report scales commonly used to assess suicidal ideation. The aim of this study was to develop an emotional Stroop test for screening suicidal ideation in Portugal. The project was developed in five phases using different samples for each phase. The first two phases were focused on the formulation of the potential words that would compose the slides. For this purpose, five biology teachers (neutral slide) and five mental health professionals (positive and negative slides) were invited to help choose the words that were most representative for each slide. The third phase validated the words defined in the previous phase. In this phase, 300 university students participated (Mage = 21.66; SD = 3.67; 68% female). They rated the words on a Likert scale in terms of their frequency of use, familiarity, level of understanding, and degree of image evocation. In the fourth phase, the researchers developed the complete version of the test, which consists of three slides with neutral, positive, and negative emotional stimuli, consecutively. Finally, in the fifth phase, we validated the final version of the test through a comparative study between a clinical group and a non-clinical group, each one composed by 50 participants (Mage = 32; SD = 9.70; 55% female). Results indicated that the clinical group demonstrated significantly higher scores for depression and suicidal ideation and lower scores for the three Stroop tasks. Words related to negative emotions were strongly correlated with suicidal ideation. Finally, the three Stroop slides explained 74.1% of the variance in suicidal ideation. These findings suggest that this test can be a viable complementary measure in the psychological assessment of suicide ideation, and intervention in the field of suicide prevention in Portugal.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; SUICIDAL ideation; STROOP effect; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; MENTAL health personnel; WORD frequency; EMOTIONAL conditioning; SUICIDAL behavior in youth
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 8, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs12080281