A Scale to Measure the Desire to be Dead

Bibliographic Data

ID13629300
AuthorsD Lester (0000-0003-1357-8672, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume67
Issue3
Pages323-327
Publication date2013-08-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.67.3.e
PMID24344559
OpenAlexW2053399374
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited5

Andrej Marusic suggested that it might be useful for therapists to assess the wish to be dead in clients, a preliminary step in the pathway to suicide. The aim of the present research was to develop a brief scale to measure the wish to be dead. Two samples of undergraduate students were administered a brief 10-item scale to measure the wish to be dead. The scale had moderately good test-retest reliability and internal consistency (as measured with Cronbach alpha). Scores on the wish to be dead scale had modest correlations with a history of suicidal ideation and attempts and with scores on a scale to measure obsession with death. The wish to be dead scale, therefore, appears to measure a state of mind different from suicidal ideation and obsession with death, has adequate psychometric properties (reliability and validity), and may prove useful for clinical practice and research

Art · Cronbach's alpha · Data mining · Internal consistency · Measure (data warehouse · Medical emergency · Poison control · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor · Scale (ratio · Suicidal ideation · Suicide prevention · Wish · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Medicine · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

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