Factor Composition of the Suicide Intent Scale
- 1 March 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Vol. 23 (1) , 37-45
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1943-278x.1993.tb00277.x
Abstract
An exploratory analysis of the Suicide Intent Scale was performed on a sample of 98 psychiatric inpatients who had made suicide attempts. The factor analysis was performed using a method for polychotomous data, and resulted in a two‐factor solution. The Lethal Intent factor contained items pertaining to the subjective level of lethal intent, while the Planning factor contained items largely related to objective planning for the attempt. Preliminary analysis of these factors suggest that the Suicide Intent Scale can be used to evaluate two separate aspects of suicidal behavior.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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