TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - The life attitudes schedule: a scale to assess adolescent life-enhancing and life-threatening behaviors
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Chapman, Joanne
A1  - Seeley, J. R.
A1  - Rohde, P.
A1  - Langford, R.
A1  - Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jennifer
A1  - Lewinsohn, P. M.
SP  - 458
EP  - 474
VL  - 25
IS  - 4
N2  - The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire to measure suicidal and other risk-taking behaviors, the Life Attitudes Schedule (LAS), and to test a theoretical model that postulates a single domain of behaviors to which all life-threatening and life-enhancing behaviors belong. The LAS was developed and piloted on 1539 high school students and young adults. The schedule measures four different content categories: death related, health related, injury related, and self-related. Each content category includes an equal number of items designed to assess actions, thoughts, and feelings. Consistent with the theoretical model, the LAS includes positive (life-enhancing) and negative (life-threatening) behaviors. In this paper we present psychometric information for the LAS. The results are interpreted as providing support for a broad, bipolar conceptualization of suicidal and other risk-taking behavior that encompasses life-threatening and life-enhancing behaviors.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -