Factor structure of adolescents' scores on the reasons for living inventory

Range, Lillian M.; Hall, Derek L.; Meyers, Kaye

doi:10.1080/07481189308252621

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“…Moreover, the confirmatory, not exploratory, factor analysis had to be applied. As for the Love of Life Scale, it would be recommended to study its relationship with the Reasons for Living Inventory (Linehan, Goodstein, Nielsen, & Chiles, 1983;Range, Hall, & Meyers, 1993). There is also a need to explore the relationship between the LL and a more detailed scale of death anxiety; i.e., the newly constructed Death Anxiety Scale-Extended by Templer et al (2006).…”

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Love of Life and Death Distress: Two Separate Factors

Abdel‐Khalek

2007

Omega (Westport)

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The objectives of the current investigation were threefold: a) to explore the gender differences on love of life (a new construct in the well-being domain) and death distress (death anxiety, death depression, and death obsession); b) to explore the relationship between the scales of these constructs; and c) to examine the factorial structure of these scales. The sample was 245 volunteer Kuwaiti college students (53.5% women). Their mean age was 21.9 (SD = 2.3). They responded to the Love of Life Scale, the Death Anxiety Scale, the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety, the Death Depression Scale-Revised, and the Death Obsession Scale. Gender differences on love of life were not significant. However, women had significantly higher mean scores for the four death distress scales than did their male counterparts. All the correlations between love of life and the death distress scales were not significant except one pertaining to love of life and death depression (negative) in women. Two oblique factors were extracted: death distress and love of life. It was concluded that these constructs represent two distinct and independent factors. Counselors and clinicians dealing with death distress would find that it is not associated with love of life.

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Love of Life and Death Distress: Two Separate Factors

Abdel‐Khalek

2007

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“…In contrast to the findings of different factor structures for U S . adolescents (Range et al, 1993), these factors corresponded closely to the subscales of the RFL, the first two factors being two distinct facets of the SCB subscale. I t was of interest to note that the reason domain of MO reported in previous studies (Linehan, 1985;Linehan et al, 1983) did not emerge as a distinct factor.…”

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“…The RFL can be scored into six subscales: Survival and Coping Beliefs (SCB), Responsibility to Family (RF), Child-Related Concerns (CC), Fear of Suicide (FS), Fear of Social Disapproval (FSD), and Moral Objections (MO). In general, nonclinical normative and psychometric data on the RFL are sparse and mostly limited to young adults and college students (e.g., Connell & Meyer, 1991;Linehan et al, 1983;Osman, Gifford, Jones, Lickiss, Osman, & Wenzel, 1993;Osman, Gregg, Osman, &Jones, 1992;Osman, Jones & Osman, 1991), although the RFL has also been administered to adolescents ( Cole, 1989;Range et al, 1993).…”

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“…Because the dimensions of the RFL closely corresponded to the subscales of the RFL, it is of interest to compute the subscores of the RFL as reason domains for this sample of adolescent boys and girls, and compare these results with those of Linehan et al (1983) for the original nonclinical normative sample of U.S. men and women and with those of Cole (1989) and Range et al (1993) for U S . adolescents.…”

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“…The emphasis on adaptive and lifemaintaining cognitive patterns might be particularly important, considering that the absence of strong positive reasons for living has been found to be highly indicative of suicidal behaviors in adults (Linehan, 1985) and in adolescents (Cole, 1989;Range, Hall, & Meyers, 1993). In this connection, an adolescent with few reasons, or at least with few important reasons, against suicidal behaviors might be at a disadvantage in time of crises compared to another adolescent with more reasons valued as important for continuing to live.…”

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Reasons for Living Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Chan

1995

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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Two hundred and seventy‐nine secondary school students in Hong Kong responded to the Chinese version of the Reasons for Living Inventory. The importance of these reasons could be adequately described by five dimensions interpreted as Positive Values and Self‐Efficacy, Optimism, Family Concerns, Concerns for Social Disapproval, and Suicidal Fears. These dimensions corresponded closely to the original subscales of the inventory. Implications of the importance of gender and age group differences in endorsing coping beliefs, rather than fears, in time of crisis are discussed.

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