Citation

Ribeiro JD, Bender TW, Selby EA, Hames JL, Joiner TE. J. Pers. Assess. 2011; 93(6): 597-604.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Society for Personality Assessment, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00223891.2011.608758

PMID

21999383

Abstract

Emerging evidence indicates that agitation is an ominous precursor to imminent death by suicide, yet measures of it are few, and to our knowledge, no self-report measure of agitation exists. To fill this gap, we have developed the Brief Agitation Measure (BAM), which is designed as a brief measure to assess agitation. In this article, we provide preliminary evidence from 2 studies examining the reliability and validity of the BAM in an undergraduate sample as well as a clinical sample. We close with a discussion of the limitations of the studies and implications of our findings.

Language: en