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Factor Analysis of the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation With Female Suicide Attempters

Ronald R. Holden

Queen’s University, holdenr{at}post.queensu.ca

Michelle M. DeLisle

Queen’s University

A sample of 119 female suicide attempters completed the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSS). Although confirmatory common factor analyses of BSS items failed to support previously hypothesized one-, two-, or three-factor models, confirmatory principal components analyses substantiated hypothesized one- and two-dimensional models. Heuristics for the number of factors converged on two latent dimensions and exploratory principal components analyses verified the presence of two previously hypothesized suicide ideation factors: motivation and preparation. Scales based on this two-dimensional model demonstrated convergent validity with other suicide indices.

Key Words: suicide ideation • factor analysis • motivation • preparation • attempters

Assessment, Vol. 12, No. 2, 231-238 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191105274925
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