. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 14.

Published in final edited form as: Emerg Adulthood. 2021 Mar 30;10(5):1216–1221. doi: 10.1177/21676968211001593

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Correlations Among Primary Study Variables.

Primary Study Variables	M (SD)/n (%)	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Suicidal Mental Imagery	2.51 (1.30)	–	−.19	42^**	.48^**	.46^**	67^***
2. Suicidal Verbal Thoughts	2.23 (1.22)		–	.06	.20	−.06	.08
3. Average Intensity of Suicidal Cognitions	2.36 (1.06)			–	.72^***	.39^*	.26
4. Worst Point Intensity of Suicidal Cognitions	2.92 (1.13)				–	.59^***	.39^*
5. Duration of Suicidal Cognitions	3.85 (1.99)					–	.15
6. Depressive Symptoms^a	23.38 (11.01)						–
7. Predominantly Suicidal Mental Imagery	22 (56.4%)

Note. Predominantly suicidal imagery refers to the proportion of participants self-reporting that the majority of the time, their suicidal cognitions take the form of mental images (rather than words).

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.

On average, the sample exceeded the clinical cutoff of 16 for depressive symptoms on the CES-D with 76.92% of the sample (n = 30) reporting clinically elevated symptoms.