Psychometric properties of the scale for suicide ideation in China.
The Chinese version of Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI; Beck, Kovacs, & Weissman, 1979) was examined with high school students (n = 292) in rural China. Results indicated that the SSI had high internal reliability and high item-total correlations. The SSI was highly correlated with measures of trait anxiety, hopelessness, and favorable attitude towards suicide. These findings indicated that the Chinese version of the SSI has excellent psychometric properties for measuring suicidal ideation in Chinese populations.
Zhang
Jie
J
Department of Sociology, State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14222-1095, USA. zhangj@buffalostate.edu
Brown
Gregory K
GK
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*