Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale for Adolescents

Impact of environmental and personality factors upon adolescents before and after psychotherapeutic intervention

“…The questionnaire contains 30 items evaluating the risk of suicidal behavior, based on the assumption that suicidal behavior revolves around a basic conflict between positions regarding life and death. The questionnaire was found valid in its ability to distinguish suicidal adolescents from those whom are not suicidal [18] and matches were found between this and other tools examining suicidal tendencies [34]. This scale had a high internal reliability for every subscaleCronbach alpha 0.76-0.83 -and internal consistency for the complete scale -0.92 [34].…”

“…Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale (MAST) [34] is a questionnaire developed especially for adolescents. The questionnaire contains 30 items evaluating the risk of suicidal behavior, based on the assumption that suicidal behavior revolves around a basic conflict between positions regarding life and death.…”

Suicidal ideation among adolescents in relation to recalled exposure to violence

“…To support this hypothesis, a number of conditions must be obtained. Exposure to violence must be related to the four attitudes described by Orbach et al, (1991) and to Florian et al's (1983) conception of fear of death. The amount of exposure an individual has encountered will increase the adolescent's attraction to death, decrease his attraction to life, decrease his repulsion to death, increase his repulsion to life and decrease his fear of death.…”

“…Each item is scored on a range of 1 to 5, and the score of each factor is based on the mean of the items in each factor. The questionnaire also has concurrent and discriminant validity (Orbach et al, 1991).…”

“…Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale (MASTS, not to be confused with the Michigan Alcohol Screening Test): The MASTS is a self-report survey constructed by Orbach et al (1991). Orbach and his colleagues attempted to construct an alternative, comprehensive, and multifaceted suicidal tendency scale on the basis of a phenomenological model of suicidal behavior (Orbach, 1988).…”