Reasons for Staying Alive When You Are Thinking of Killing Yourself: The Reasons for Living Inventory.

Linehan, Marsha M.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1983-Apr

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Reasons for Staying Alive When You Are Thinking of Killing Yourself: The Reasons for Living Inventory.

Linehan, Marsha M.; And Others

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v51 n2 p276-86 Apr 1983

Describes the development of the Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL), an instrument to measure beliefs potentially important as reasons for not committing suicide. Factor analyses indicated six primary reasons for living. The RFL was given to Seattle shoppers (N=197) and psychiatric inpatients (N=195) and differentiated suicidal from nonsuicidal individuals in both samples. (Author/JAC)

Descriptors: Adults, Affective Measures, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Predictive Validity, Suicide, Test Construction

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Language: English

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