The brief Reasons for Living Inventory for adolescents (BRFL-A)

Osman, Augustine; Kopper, Beverly A.; Barrios, Francisco X.; Osman, Joylene R.; Besett, Tricia M.; Linehan, Marsha M.

doi:10.1007/bf01441566

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“…The RFL-A has been found to have sound psychometric properties. It has demonstrated both convergent and discriminant validity with suicidality and hopelessness (Gutierrez, Osman, Kopper, & Barrios, 2000;Osman et al, 1996) as well as high internal consistency (.89-.93) (Osman et al, 1996). In the current study, the Cronbach alpha was .89 for the total score.…”

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Relationship Between Religious Coping and Suicidal Behaviors Among African American Adolescents

Molock

Puri

Matlin

et al. 2006

Journal of Black Psychology

125

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This study investigated whether hopelessness and depression were risk factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors in African American adolescents and looked at whether religious participation and religious coping protected these students from suicidality. Participants were 212 African American high school students (133 females, 79 males). The results of multiple and logistic regression analyses found that hopelessness and depression were risk factors for suicidal ideation and attempts. Religious coping style was significantly related to suicidal behaviors: Self-directed coping was related to increased hopelessness, depression, and suicide attempts, and collaborative coping was related to increased reasons for living. Gender differences were found in symptoms of depression, religious coping style and religious participation. Results provide additional support for suicide interventions to target hopelessness and depressive symptoms and highlight the importance of examining the role of culturally salient variables, such as religious participation and religious coping style, when developing intervention programs for suicide.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Relationship Between Religious Coping and Suicidal Behaviors Among African American Adolescents

Molock

Puri

Matlin

et al. 2006

Journal of Black Psychology

125

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“…Each item is rated on a 6-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all important) to 6 (extremely important). Osman et al (1996) reported stable factor solutions and acceptable estimates of reliability (as4.70) and validity for the BRFL-A in adolescent clinical and nonclinical samples. For example, the authors found that scores on the BRFL-A differentiated between suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescent inpatients, indicating evidence of known-groups validity.…”

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“…Brief Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents (BRFL-A; Osman et al, 1996). The BRFL-A is a 14-item self-report instrument designed to assess reasons that adolescents give for not killing themselves.…”

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Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory‐II in nonclinical adolescent samples

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This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) in samples of high-school adolescents (N=414; 210 boys and 204 girls, ages 14-18 years). Confirmatory factor analyses provided satisfactory fit estimates for the two- and three-factor oblique solutions reported frequently in the extant literature. The solution to a general factor with domain-specific somatic and cognitive-affective factors was examined as an alternative model to previously established models for the current high-school sample data. Results provided stronger support for the general factor model. Estimates of internal consistency for scores on this instrument were high (coefficient alpha=.92, average interitem correlation=.35). The mean BDI-II total score for the nonclinical samples (M=12.50, SD=10.50) was compared with the mean scores reported for various adolescent normative samples in the extant literature. The BDI-II total score correlated moderately and significantly with scores on self-report measures of hopelessness (r=.63), anxiety (r=.53), and suicide-related behaviors (r=.57), providing support of adequate correlates for the BDI-II. Estimates of known-groups validity were evaluated using data from a small sample of 167 clinical adolescent inpatients. Specific study findings, limitations, and recommendations are discussed.

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“…Krysinska and Lester (2016) and Krysinska et al (2015) gave American undergraduate students Francis's religiosity scale, a depression scale, and questions about their history of suicidal ideation threats and attempts, and current suicidal ideation. They also administered a brief version of Linehan's Reasons for Living Scale (Osman et al 1996) which has subscales that measure survival and coping 3 Not significant for Kuwaiti students. beliefs, responsibility to family, moral objections, fear of suicide, and fear of social disapproval.…”

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Does Religiosity Predict Suicidal Behavior?

Lester

2017

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Research was reviewed on whether self-report measures of religiosity were a protective factor against suicidal behaviors. It was found that scores on Francis's measure of religiosity was negatively associated with non-lethal suicidal behavior (ideation and attempts), a protective effect. Similarly, it was found that intrinsic religiosity (but not extrinsic religiosity) was negatively associated with non-lethal suicidal behaviors. However, these associations were weak. Research is needed on the issue whether counselors can use their patients' religiosity to reduce the risk of dying by suicide. Keywords: religiosity; suicidal ideation; attempted suicideThe association of religion and suicide has long been of interest. Durkheim (1897) noted and tried to explain the fact that Protestants have higher suicide rates than Roman Catholics, while it has long been known that Muslims have lower suicide rates than Christians (Lester 2006). There has been a great deal of research and theorizing about the role of religion, religiosity, and spirituality in increasing the risk of suicidal behavior versus acting as a protective factor for suicidal behavior. 1 In a meta-analysis of nine studies, Wu et al. (2015) found significant protective effects of religion (as measured by church/temple attendance or claiming/practicing a religion) on completed suicide. This effect was found to be stronger in studies conducted in Western cultures, in areas with high religious homogeneity, and among older populations. Sisask et al. (2010) also reported cross-cultural differences in the protective effects of three dimensions of religiosity (religious denomination, subjective religiosity, and organizational religiosity) for attempted suicide. The strongest protective effect across the different study sites, such as Brazil, Estonia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Sri Lanka, was found for subjective religiosity, that is, considering oneself to be a religious person, while the results for the more objective indicators of religiosity were mixed. The present chapter focuses on the association between religiosity and suicidal behavior in individuals. Since the research on this association involves self-report questionnaires, 2 the suicidal behavior is limited to suicidal ideation and, occasionally attempted suicide. Furthermore, we will focus more on our own research, but not to the exclusion of the research of others.

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The brief Reasons for Living Inventory for adolescents (BRFL-A)

Cited by 85 publications

References 13 publications

Relationship Between Religious Coping and Suicidal Behaviors Among African American Adolescents

Relationship Between Religious Coping and Suicidal Behaviors Among African American Adolescents

Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory‐II in nonclinical adolescent samples

Does Religiosity Predict Suicidal Behavior?

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