TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Development and validation of a brief self-report measure of agitation: the Brief Agitation Measure
JO  - Journal of personality assessment
A1  - Ribeiro, Jessica D.
A1  - Bender, Theodore W.
A1  - Selby, Edward A.
A1  - Hames, Jennifer L.
A1  - Joiner, Thomas E.
SP  - 597
EP  - 604
VL  - 93
IS  - 6
N2  - Emerging evidence indicates that agitation is an ominous precursor to imminent death by suicide, yet measures of it are few, and to our knowledge, no self-report measure of agitation exists. To fill this gap, we have developed the Brief Agitation Measure (BAM), which is designed as a brief measure to assess agitation. In this article, we provide preliminary evidence from 2 studies examining the reliability and validity of the BAM in an undergraduate sample as well as a clinical sample. We close with a discussion of the limitations of the studies and implications of our findings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2011.608758
ID  - ref1
ER  -