TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Factor analysis of the Beck Scale for suicide ideation with female suicide attempters
JO  - Assessment
A1  - Holden, Ronald R.
A1  - Delisle, Michelle M.
SP  - 231
EP  - 238
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.
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SN  - 1073-1911
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191105274925
ID  - ref1
ER  -