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Keywords
African American teenagers--Suicidal behavior--Risk assessment; Suicide--Risk factors--Testing; Academic theses;
Abstract
Suicide is the cause of death for nearly 30,000 deaths per year in the United States (Henkel, 2005). Studies show that rates of suicide have increased dramatically among African Americans ages 10-19 years, yet the overall suicide rate of African American adolescents is still lower than that of their Caucasian counterparts (Gould & Kramer, 2001 ; Greening & Stoppelbein, 2002). Some researchers have begun to study protective factors, particularly resilience, as one of the factors that should be maximized to reduce the rate of adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviors. In particular, resiliency is an adaptive, stress-resistant personal quality that allows the individual to thrive despite a number of unfortunate life experiences (Markstrom, Marshall, & Tryon, 2000). Osman and colleagues (2004) developed the Suicide Resilience Inventory-25 (SRI-25), which is a self-report instrument that assesses protective factors in three domains: Internal Protective, External Protective, and Emotional Stability. The present study focused on the following issues: (a) examine the reliability estimates of the SRI-25 scales; (b) evaluate the ability of scale scores of the SRI-25 to differentiate the responses of two ethnic groups; (c) evaluate the ability of the SRI-25 scale scores to differentiate between the responses of Caucasian and African American girls; (d) examine the differences in item responses on each of the three scale scores of the SRI-25 between two ethnic groups; and (e) evaluate the ability of the individual items on the SRI-25 scales to differentiate between girls in both ethnic groups.
Year of Submission
2007
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Psychology
First Advisor
Seth Brown
Second Advisor
Mel Gonnerman
Third Advisor
Augustine Osman
Date Original
2007
Object Description
1 PDF file (88 leaves)
Copyright
©2007 Stephanie Elizabeth Gantt
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Gantt, Stephanie Elizabeth, "Validation of the Suicide Resilience Inventory-25 (SRI-25) with African American High School Students" (2007). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2694.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2694
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