Document Type
Research Paper
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDl-11; Beck et al., 1996), the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS; Beck et al., 1994), and the Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents (RFL-A; Osman et al., 1998) in differentiating between psychiatric inpatient suicidal adolescents from nonsuicidal high school adolescents. The sample included an equal number of inpatient suicidal and high school nonsuicidal adolescents. We found that all three instruments differentiated between the groups. Further examination of these differences showed that only the BDl-11 (Wald = 27.3, Q < .001) and the RFL-A (Wald= 12.02, Q < .001) instruments predicted group membership; overall hit rate = 80.4%. Results of the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analyses showed that the Area Under the Curve (AUC) index for the BDl-II was significantly higher that the AUC for the BHS.
Publication Date
1999
Journal Title
Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
75
Last Page
78
Copyright
©1999 by the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Publisher
University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Recommended Citation
Gansen, Teresa; Kimbell, Laura; and Downs, William
(1999)
"Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory - II, the Beck Hoplessness Scale, and the Reasons for Living Inventory in Differentiation Clinical from Nonclinical Adolescent,"
Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 15.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/csbsproceedings/vol3/iss1/15
