The Psychometric Properties and Correlates of the Reynolds' Suicide Ideation Questionnaire with Kuwaiti and American Students

Authors: Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed¹; Lester, David²

Source: Archives of Suicide Research, Volume 11, Number 3, July 2007 , pp. 309-319(11)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

In samples of Kuwaiti (n = 460) and American (n = 273) college students, the Reynolds Suicide Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) proved to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity with measures of anxiety, optimism, pessimism, death obsession, obsession-compulsion, and ego-grasping. The SIQ was factorially complex in both samples, but the eight critical items showed a similar two-factor pattern in both samples. It is important to note that in spite of the great differences between Kuwait and US students and their cultures, the findings were quite similar. By and large, the psychological correlates of the SIQ may have cross-cultural generality.

Keywords: anxiety; death obsession; Kuwait; optimism; pessimism; psychometrics; Suicide ideation questionnaire; U.S.A

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811110600896236

Affiliations: 1: Ahmed Abdel-Khalek, Kuwait University, Kuwait 2: David Lester, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, U.S.A.

Publication date: 2007-07-01