title: A preliminary validation of the Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation (PANSI) inventory with normal adolescent samples.
abstract: The present study evaluated the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation (PANSI; Osman, Gutierrez, Kopper, Barrios, & Chiros, 1998) inventory in a sample of high-school youths. The PANSI is designed as a measure of risk and protective factors related to suicidal behavior. Participants (114 boys and 103 girls) completed the PANSI and other self-report instruments. Results of the confirmatory factor analyses supported adequate fit of the 2-factor oblique model to the sample data. Both factor scales attained adequate levels of reliability. Boys and girls did not differ in their responses to the PANSI scales. The PANSI scale scores were associated with scores from related measures. Logistic-regression analyses were used to evaluate the contributions of the PANSI scale scores to differentiate between the study groups. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses, using data from the psychiatric suicide risk and high-school control youths, were used to identify cutoff scores of 1.63 and 3.33 for the PANSI-negative and PANSI-positive scales, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, 50614-0505, USA. augustine.osman@uni.edu
authors.forename: Augustine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Osman
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Gutierrez
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiandani
authors.forename: Beverly A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Kopper
authors.forename: Francisco X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Barrios
authors.forename: Sena C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Linden
authors.forename: Ronald S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Truelove
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention