Citation

Dadfar M, Lester D, Atef Vahid MK. Curr. Psychol. 2018; 37(3): 498-507.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health- Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, International Campus, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12144-016-9527-y

PMID

30147280

PMCID

PMC6096960

Abstract

The Wish to be Dead Scale (WDS) was administered to a convenience sample of 200 Iranian psychiatric outpatients. Using a Principal Component Analysis, two factors were identified, labeled Lack of purpose in life (F1), and Lack of interest in living (F2). The WDS had good reliability and significant positive correlations with scores on the Beck Suicide Ideation Scale and with other measures of mental ill-health. This study provides evidence of the usefulness of the WDS for assessing psychiatric patients.

Language: en

Keywords

Psychiatric outpatients; Suicidal process; Wish to be dead