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Keywords
Suicide--Cross-cultural studies; African American college students--Suicidal behavior; African American college students--Psychological testing; Suicide; Academic theses; Cross-cultural studies;
Abstract
Suicide behavior has increased over the last several years in the 15-24 year old age group. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), in 1999, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the United States. There are substantial ethnic group differences in the rates of suicide for adults and adolescents. In both adults and adolescents, African Americans have the lowest rates of suicide in the United States of any other ethnic group. Resiliency behaviors are behaviors/protective factors that buffer individuals who are at risk for suicidal behaviors. This study was designed to examine whether ethnic group differences can be identified by the newly designed Suicide Resilience Inventory-25 (SRI-25; Osman et al., 2003) instrument. The SRI-25 is a 25 item self-report measure with three scales (internal protective, external protective and emotional control) that assess protective factors that prevent individuals from attending to recurring suicidal thoughts. The second goal of this study was to examine relationships between scores on the total and scale scores of the SRI-25 and scale scores on two positive-related and negative-related measures; the Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation Inventory (PANSI; Osman et al., 2002) and the Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale (MAST; Orbach et al., 1991). The analyses were conducted for the separate ethnic groups. Participants were 92 men and 150 women college students. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to compare ethnic group differences on the SRI-25 total and scale scores.
Year of Submission
2004
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Psychology
First Advisor
Augustine Osman
Second Advisor
Francisco X. Barrios
Third Advisor
John Williams
Date Original
2004
Object Description
1 PDF file (84 leaves)
Copyright
©2004 James Corye Johnson
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Johnson, James Corye, "Validation of the Suicide Resilience Inventory-25 (SRI-25) With African American College Students" (2004). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 3078.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/3078
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