Citation

Oquendo MA, Baca-Garcia E, Graver R, Morales M, Montalvan V, Mann JJ. Hisp. J. Behav. Sci. 2000; 22(3): 369-380.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0739986300223006

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) is an instrument to measure a range of beliefs potentially important as reasons for not committing suicide. There is no Spanish version of this instrument. The adaptation process includes translation, back-translation, review of both versions, and application of the resulting instrument to a bilingual sample from the target population. This process allows for assessment of the equivalence between the English and Spanish version of the RFL in three stages: linguistic equivalence, conceptual equivalence, and scale equivalence. The most important aspects of the adaptation, conceptual and scale equivalence, are adequate in this Spanish version of the RFL. The adaptation of the RFL is ready to be used in Spanish-speaking populations.

Language: en