@article{ref1,
title="Factor analysis of the Beck Scale for suicide ideation with female suicide attempters",
journal="Assessment",
year="2005",
author="Holden, Ronald R. and Delisle, Michelle M.",
volume="12",
number="2",
pages="231-238",
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.",
language="",
issn="1073-1911",
doi="10.1177/1073191105274925",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191105274925"
}