@article{ref1,
title="How well does a wellbeing measure predict psychiatric 'caseness' as well as suicide risk and self-harm in adolescents?",
journal="Psychiatry research",
year="2018",
author="Parker, Gordon and Smith, Isabelle Granville and Paterson, Amelia and Romano, Mia and Hadzi-Pavlovic, Dusan and Ricciardi, Tahlia",
volume="268",
number="",
pages="323-327",
abstract="Screening for psychiatric disorders may be hampered by traditional measures that increase participant burden and elicit negative responses via denial and social desirability biases. This study examined the utility of a wellbeing measure to identify psychopathology and suicide risk in adolescent participants. 1,579 students from Sydney schools participated in a survey which assessed wellbeing using the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) as well as psychiatric disorders and suicide risk. <br><br>RESULTS showed that low scores on the SWLS discriminated adolescents who had experienced a psychiatric condition or suicidality from those not so assigned. Specifically, students with no psychiatric diagnosis yielded a mean SWLS score of 28.0 while for those assigned a diagnosis, mean scores ranged from 19.4-3.0 across the various psychiatric conditions. Students who reported any suicidal ideation yielded a mean SWLS score of 22.7, and those with a current suicidal plan yielded a mean score of 17.7. We derived SWLS cut-off scores for predicting psychiatric caseness and suicidality but established that they had low positive predictive power. The SWLS therefore appears to provide a limited proxy measure of the chance of a psychiatric disorder or psychological distress, and might usefully complement more direct measures of such states.<br><br>Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1781",
doi="10.1016/j.psychres.2018.07.034",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.07.034"
}