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Reasons for Living versus Reasons for Dying: Examining the Internal Debate of Suicide
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The Reasons for Living vs. Reasons for Dying (RFL/RFD) Assessment was used to obtain suicidal outpatients' top five reasons for living and for dying, respectively. Forty‐nine suicidal university counseling center patients provided 173 RFL and 145 RFD responses. These responses were organized into eight RFL coding categories and nine RFD coding categories. Two coders trained in the RFL/RFD coding system showed high levels of inter‐rater reliability (KRFL = .81; KRFD = .80). Chi‐square results for RFL and RFD coding categories showed that the coding categories were not equally salient to these suicidal patients.
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“Reasons to live include themes such as family/friends (“I don’t want my husband to think I didn’t love him”), future plans (“There are still things on my bucket list”), enjoyable things (“I could never go swimming again if I were dead”), self-image (“I don’t want anyone to think I was a coward”) and religion (“My religion forbids suicide”; 37).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jobes, D. A., & Mann, R. E.
- Affiliations
- Catholic University of America (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jobes, David A.
- ORCID
- Jobes, David A.
- Venue
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1999-06
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 97-104
- ISSN
- 0363-0234 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-278X
- OpenAlex
- W1798418150
- Cited by
- 117
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 3.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- suicide, reasons for living, university counseling services, inter-rater reliability, coding categories
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude to Death, Cognition, Counseling, Female, Humans, Male, Psychological Theory, Surveys and Questionnaires, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Suicide
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