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- Title
Psychometric Characteristics of the Wish to Be Dead Scale (WDS) in Iranian Psychiatric Outpatients.
- Authors
Dadfar, Mahboubeh; Lester, David; Atef Vahid, Mohammad Kazem
- Abstract
The Wish to be Dead Scale (WDS) was administered to a convenience sample of 200 Iranian psychiatric outpatients. Using a Principal Component Analysis, two factors were identified, labeled Lack of purpose in life (F1), and Lack of interest in living (F2). The WDS had good reliability and significant positive correlations with scores on the Beck Suicide Ideation Scale and with other measures of mental ill-health. This study provides evidence of the usefulness of the WDS for assessing psychiatric patients.
- Subjects
SUICIDAL behavior; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; OUTPATIENT medical care; PSYCHOMETRICS; PRINCIPAL components analysis; MENTAL illness
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 3, p498
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-016-9527-y