Psychometric properties and validation of the Reasons for Living Inventory in an outpatient clinical population in Malaysia

被引：10

作者：

Aishvarya, S. ^{[1
,2
]}

Maniam, T. ^{[1
]}

Karuthan, C. ^{[3
]}

Sidi, Hatta ^{[1
]}

Ruzyanei, Nik ^{[1
]}

Oei, T. P. S. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Kebangsaan Malaysia, Med Ctr, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

[2] Univ Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

[3] Univ Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

来源：

COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY | 2014年 / 55卷

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D O I：

10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.06.010

中图分类号：

R749 [精神病学];

学科分类号：

100205 ;

摘要：

The Reasons For Living Inventory has been shown to have good psychometric properties in Western populations for the past three decades. The present study examined the psychometric properties and factor structure of English and Malay version of the Reasons For Living (RFL) Inventory in a sample of clinical outpatients in Malaysia. The RFL is designed to assess an individual's various reasons for not committing suicide. A total of 483 participants (283 with psychiatric illnesses and 200 with non-psychiatric medical illnesses) completed the RFL and other self-report instruments. Results of the EFA (exploratory factor analysis) and CFA (confirmatory factor analysis) supported the fit for the six-factor oblique model as the best-fitting model. The internal consistency of the RFL was alpha = .94 and it was found to be high with good concurrent, criterion and discriminative validities. Thus, the RFL is a reliable and valid instrument to measure the various reasons for not committing suicide among psychiatry and medical outpatients in Malaysia. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：S107 / S113

页数：7

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