Assessment of Suicidal Intention: The Scale for Suicide Ideation
Introduces and validates the Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI), a 19-item clinician-rated instrument designed to quantify the intensity of a patient's specific attitudes, behaviours, and plans to die by suicide. A canonical, widely-used measure of suicidal-ideation severity.
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Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (American Psychological Association)
Published
1 Jan 1979
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Key Findings
- The 19-item scale demonstrated high internal consistency and clinician inter-rater reliability.
- Factor analysis of 126 ideators yielded three factors: active suicidal desire, specific plans/preparation, and passive suicidal desire.
- Established the instrument as a graded measure of ideation severity for clinical and research use.
Methodology Notes
Instrument-development and validation paper (J Consulting and Clinical Psychology 47(2):343–352, 1979); only the year is registered — date precision is year (published_date set to 1979-01-01 by convention). Title, authors, venue, and volume/issue/pages verified via Crossref; the APA PsycNet publisher page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetchers.
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Aaron T. Beck, Maria Kovacs, Arlene Weissman
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Aaron T. Beck, Maria Kovacs, Arlene Weissman (1979). Assessment of Suicidal Intention: The Scale for Suicide Ideation. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (American Psychological Association). https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.47.2.343
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