Assessing motivations for suicide attempts: development and psychometric properties of the inventory of motivations for suicide attempts.
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This study describes the psychometric properties of the Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (IMSA). The IMSA was designed to comprehensively assess motivations for suicide emphasized by major theories of suicidality. The IMSA was administered to two samples of recent suicide attempters, undergraduates (n = 66) and outpatients (n = 53). The IMSA exhibited a reliable two-factor structure in which one factor represented Intrapersonal motivations related to ending emotional pain, and the second represented Interpersonal motivations related to communication or help-seeking. Convergent validity and divergent validity of IMSA scales were supported by expected patterns of correlations with another measure of suicide motivations. In addition, the IMSA scales displayed clinical utility, in which greater endorsement of intrapersonal motivations was associated with greater intent to die, whereas greater endorsement of interpersonal motivations was associated with less lethal intent and greater likelihood of rescue. Findings suggest the IMSA can be of use for both research and clinical purposes when a comprehensive assessment of suicide motivations is desired.
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When a suicidal individual is in crisis, intent to die and a motivation for ending their life act as precipitating mechanisms.
“When a suicidal individual is in crisis, intent to die and a motivation for ending their life act as precipitating mechanisms (Silverman et al., 2007; May and Klonsky, 2013).”
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- Authors
- May, A. M., & Klonsky, E. D.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- May, Alexis M.
- Venue
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 532-546
- ISSN
- 0363-0234 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-278X
- OpenAlex
- W1976870548
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 6 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 4.82
- 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 › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Keywords
- suicide attempts, suicide motives, psychometric properties, interpersonal motivation, emotional pain, help-seeking, suicide risk assessment, suicide theory
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Motivation, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Suicide, Suicide, Attempted, Risk Assessment
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