title: Factor analysis of the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation with female suicide attempters.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. holdenr@post.queensu.ca
authors.forename: Ronald R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Holden
authors.forename: Michelle M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: DeLisle
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*