The emotional Stroop paradigm is a research tool designed to measure unconscious worries towards specific themes (Richards, et al., 1992) this tool might be particularly helpful to assess tendencies that could be considered sensitive. Research on hopelessness and suicide risk are prone to be influenced by social desirability since people might not be sincere in reporting these tendencies to avoid stigmatization. The purpose of this study was to use the emotional Stroop paradigm to measure attentional bias to positive and negative affect and towards hopelessness and suicide to determine the predictive power of these emotions towards these dispositions, and how these relations might be shaped by age, gender, occupational status, and family load. 300 participants were assessed online by two 65-trial discrimination tasks based on the emotional Stroop task for Spanish speakers, in which they had to press a number between 1 and 6 that identified the color in which a neutral, or thematic word was presented on the computer screen. Performance was registered only if they scored with 80% of correct responses or above. Interference indexes were computed on milliseconds for blocks of phrases representing neutral, anger, fear, hopelessness and suicide thematic content. Results were computed on interference indexes. Linear regression models between fear and hopelessness and between fear and suicide were found for women (p<.001; r2>0.24) but not for men; while anger predicted hopelessness and suicide for men (p<.001; r2>0.31). A direct relationship between fear and anger with hopelessness was found among women with regular jobs and children (p<.01; r2>0.25), while no significant relationship was found in this regard for men. These results through light on the complex relationships our societies impose on people depending on their age, gender and family responsibilities on their psychological make out, that provide additional information on the subject.