@article{ref1,
title="Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents: psychometric properties among Portuguese adolescents",
journal="OMEGA - Journal of death and dying",
year="2018",
author="Ventosa Brás, Marta Sofia and Guerreiro Carmo, Cláudia Isabel and de Jesus, Saul Neves",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="30222818819340-30222818819340",
abstract="Reasons for living are protective factors against suicidal behavior in adolescents. One of the most useful measures to assess them is the Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents (RFL-A) developed by Osman et al. The goal of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of its Portuguese version of the RFL-A. To this end, we recruited 512 high school adolescents (mean age = 16.7 years), who completed the RFL-A, a Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, and a hopelessness scale. Exploratory factor analysis replicated the original five-factor model and confirmatory factor analysis obtained satisfactory adjustment values. The RFL-A shows good reliability (internal consistency and temporal stability) as well as good convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validities. These results indicate that the RFL-A is a valid and reliable measure to study protective factors against suicidal behaviors in Portuguese adolescents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0030-2228",
doi="10.1177/0030222818819340",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222818819340"
}