“Is This Really Our Problem?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Black Americans’ Misconceptions about Suicide

James, Tierra; Spates, Kamesha; Cureton, Jenny L.; Patel, Sweta; Llyod, Christina; Daniel, Diamond

doi:10.1080/01639625.2022.2026746

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“…However, Cookson et al (2021) found some evidence that suggests women have higher endorsements in conspiracy theories in general, but men more strongly endorse antivaccine conspiracy theories in particular. Additionally, Black/African American college students have been found to hold several misconceptions about suicide (James et al, 2022) and more strongly endorse conspiracy theories than White students (Crocker et al, 1999). Also, African American and Latino/a participants have been found to be more likely to endorse HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories than White participants (Ross et al, 2006).…”

Section: Psychological Misconceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Priming metacognition and critical thinking to dispel psychological misconceptions.

Bamberger¹,

Campbell²,

Smith³

2024

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

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Psychological misconception endorsement often is due to a failure or inability to think critically about information that may or may not be accurate. This study examined to what extent undergraduate introductory psychology students' personality traits and the supraliminal, semantic priming of their metacognition and critical thinking predict their ability to dispel common psychological misconceptions. Fitting hierarchical regression models, exploratory analyses found that Black/African American persons, Hispanic/Latino/a persons, and persons from other ethnic minority groups exemplified greater psychological misconception endorsement than White persons. Also, assertiveness (an aspect of extroversion on the Big Five), intellect (an aspect of openness/intellect), and orderliness (an aspect of conscientiousness) significantly predicted misconception endorsement. Controlling for demographics and personality, the prime was not a significant predictor of misconception endorsement. Despite this, 46.52% of the variation in misconception endorsement was explained by the complete set of predictors. In terms of the potentially metacognitively advanced response of "don't know" on the misconceptions test, as students' year level of college when they took an introductory psychology course increased, their frequency of endorsement of "don't know" increased, while their endorsement of misconceptions decreased. Also as orderliness decreased, endorsement of "don't know" increased. Again, controlling for demographics and personality, the prime was not a significant predictor. Nevertheless, a majority of undergraduate introductory psychology students still endorsed and believed in many common psychological misconceptions. The implications of these results for teaching are that the use of equitable and inclusive classroom activities geared toward student diversity in misconception endorsement and the collaborative construction of knowledge should be emphasized.

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Section: Psychological Misconceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Priming metacognition and critical thinking to dispel psychological misconceptions.

Bamberger¹,

Campbell²,

Smith³

2024

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

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“…Culture has complex influences on both suicide and career concerns, including commonly held beliefs and values (Odafe et al., 2016), access and acceptability of services (Ngwena et al., 2017), and connective social relationships (McClatchey et al., 2019). For instance, an individual may feel shame, guilt, and/or isolation for having suicidal thoughts that counter the objections of their cultural and religious communities (Odafe et al., 2016) and may be unintentionally stigmatizing (James et al., 2021). Thus, authors urge practitioners to seek a nuanced understanding of an individual's potentially complex experiences with moral and cultural messages about suicide (Cureton et al., 2023; James et al., 2021; Odafe et al., 2016), which career counselors can do in the context of their work.…”

Section: Shores Applied To Career Counselingmentioning

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“…For instance, an individual may feel shame, guilt, and/or isolation for having suicidal thoughts that counter the objections of their cultural and religious communities (Odafe et al, 2016) and may be unintentionally stigmatizing (James et al, 2021). Thus, authors urge practitioners to seek a nuanced understanding of an individual's potentially complex experiences with moral and cultural messages about suicide (Cureton et al, 2023;James et al, 2021;Odafe et al, 2016), which career counselors can do in the context of their work.…”

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SHORES: A suicide protective factors mnemonic with applications in career counseling

Cureton

Tovey

2023

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An established suicide protective factors mnemonic is beneficial to career counselors as career‐related suicide concerns increase. SHORES stands for skills and strategies for coping (S), hope (H), objections (O), reasons to live and restricted means (R), engaged care (E), and support (S). This literature‐backed suicide resiliency tool applies across client populations and to career assessment, intervention, and ongoing counseling. We establish the clear overlap between work and suicide, describe SHORES applied in career counseling, and provide an illustrative case example. Particular implications include SHORES in screening and comprehensive client conceptualization as well as needed research on SHORES in career practice.

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Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide

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“Is This Really Our Problem?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Black Americans’ Misconceptions about Suicide

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Priming metacognition and critical thinking to dispel psychological misconceptions.

Priming metacognition and critical thinking to dispel psychological misconceptions.

SHORES: A suicide protective factors mnemonic with applications in career counseling

Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide

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