Hopelessness and Future Thinking in Parasuicide: the Role of Perfectionism

This study had 3 aims: 1) to independently replicate the future thinking effect, that parasuicides, when compared with controls, show a deficit in positive future thinking but no increase in negative future thinking; 2) to determine whether positive future thinking & socially prescribed perfectionism discriminate general hospital parasuicides from controls beyond measures of affect; & 3) to explore the relationship between future thinking & perfectionism. (35 refs)