ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Mexican-Origin Youth Who Prospectively Endorse Suicidality Evince Greater Sympathetic and Lower Parasympathetic Activation in Response to a Social Stressor
- Lauren Gonzalves
University of California, Davis - David Weissman
Harvard University - Amanda Guyer
University of California, Davis - Richard Robins
University of California, Davis - Paul Hastings
University of California, Davis
Abstract
In a prospective study of 229 Mexican-origin adolescents, autonomic correlates of suicidal thoughts and/or behaviors (STB) were analyzed in response to a social-exclusion task. Youth who prospectively reported STB showed significantly higher sympathetic and lower parasympathetic activation (reciprocal sympathetic activation) in response to being socially excluded, compared to non-STB youth.
Suicide
