UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1210

Submission information
Submission Number: 1210
Submission ID: 20646
Submission UUID: 3ae31e41-4f4a-43a9-8309-a54dc8e4eb1f

Created: Sun, 08/17/2025 - 09:04 PM
Completed: Sun, 08/17/2025 - 09:04 PM
Changed: Fri, 09/05/2025 - 07:22 PM

Remote IP address: 187.251.246.197
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No

Research Mentor Information

Thomas Joiner
he/him
Dr.
edenbaum@psy.fsu.edu
Faculty
Arts and Sciences
Florida State University
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Additional Research Mentor(s)

Emma R. Edenbaum
she/her
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edenbaum@psy.fsu.edu
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Overall Project Details

Reexamining the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: A Return to Theoretical Precision
suicide, burdensomeness, belongingness, capability
Yes
1
(Clinical) Psychology
On FSU Main Campus
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In-person
5-10 hours/week
Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Van Orden et al.'s (2010) interpersonal theory of suicide has been cited 6,614 times. As can be expected over 15 years, this ideation-to-action framework, designed to predict lethal suicide attempts, has been both strengthened by empirical progress and affected by concept creep. Leveraging the attention the theory has amassed, this study will revisit the ITS as originally proposed and test its claims with the most methodologically rigorous measures to date.
Literature review, survey building, data collection, data analysis, poster design, academic writing. (TBD, depending on mentor and mentee comfort: Suicide Risk Assessments.)
The most important thing to bring to the table is passion, and the rest can be taught. Must be willing to engage with sensitive materials (i.e., detailed descriptions of [non]suicidal self-injurious thoughts and behavior) respectfully.
This is your time to engage with clinical psychology research in a setting where mistakes are expected. This is designed to be a first experience in clinical work and/or psychology research. You will be given tasks to tackle and provided feedback every step of the way. My job as a mentor will be to establish an environment that allows for imperfection, and your job will be to ask questions and give this work your best shot.
Foundational paper: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018697 (necessary to know)

Foundational book: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvjghv2f (optional)

Roundtable recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rTQp6AsCizuJFVMWMt17gL7rMAcJXu1o/view?usp=sharing
Yes
  • Day: Thursday, September 4
    Start Time: 1:00
    End Time: 1:30
    Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/95049217158

UROP Program Elements

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2025
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