Citation

Ivanoff A, Jang SJ, Smyth NJ, Linehan MM. J. Psychopathol. Behav. Assess. 1994; 16(1): 1-13.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF02229062

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The Linehan Reasons for Living Inventory is a 48-item scale on which respondents rate how important each item would be for living if suicide were contemplated. The inventory possesses good psychometric properties and can distinguish suicidal from nonsuicidal people among shoppers, psychiatric inpatients, college students, and adolescents. As its length limits its utility in many institutional and screening settings, the purpose of this study was (1) to develop a brief form of the Reasons for Living Inventory appropriate for clinical use and (2) to examine the predictive validity of this brief measure, named the Brief Reasons for Living Inventory (BRFL), to distinguish suicidal from nonsuicidal prison inmates.

RESULTS indicate that the brief form was as good as either the Beck Depression Inventory or the Beck Hopelessness Scale at predicting suicidality in this population. Further study is needed to validate the BRFL with different institutionalized and other populations as well as to assess its ability to discriminate suicide ideators from those engaging in overt suicidal behavior. © 1994 Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; suicide; male; quality of life; depression; social support; article; major clinical study; clinical practice; coping behavior; prisoner; screening test; parasuicide; Brief Reasons for Living Inventory