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Utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory in Assessing Suicide Risk

Kene, Prachi
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1196965938

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2007, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, Psychology.
Suicide prevention can be accomplished only if clinicians can accurately identify suicidal individuals. In the realm of suicide research and clinical practice there has been an increasing recognition of the factors that elevate suicide risk. Moreover, attempts have been made to use personality assessment instruments to better understand suicide risk. The present study examined the usefulness of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) in assessing suicide risk. As an archival study, clinical records of 85 referrals at the University of Toledo Psychology Clinic were utilized for the purposes of this study. As a measure of convergent validity and discriminant validity in suicide risk assessment, the results of all the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) scales and subscales were correlated with the two suicide risk scores as obtained from applying the two suicide assessment checklists – Suicide Assessment Checklist, Yufit (SAC-Y) and Suicide Assessment Checklist, Rogers (SAC-R) - to the intake interview reports and therapy process notes of the clients. Furthermore, a series of regression analyses were conducted in which the PAI-Depression scale (DEP), Suicide Ideation scale (SUI), and the Suicide Potential Index (SPI) served as the independent variables and the SAC-Y, SAC-R, and the presence or absence of a no-suicide contract served as dependent variables. The SAC-Y and SAC-R showed small to moderate correlations with the PAI scales and subscales. The SAC-Y showed the highest correlation with DEP, whereas the SAC-R showed the highest correlation with the SUI. The SUI and SPI displayed substantial incremental validity over DEP in predicting the SAC-R score; however DEP showed substantial incremental validity over SUI and SPI in predicting the SAC-Y score. Furthermore, SUI showed greater incremental validity than did the SPI. The findings of the present study suggest that DEP, SUI and SPI of the PAI make important contributions in suicide risk assessment and that the SAC-R may be a more sensitive measure of suicide risk than the SAC-Y.
Joseph Hovey (Advisor)
116 p.
Psychology, Clinical
Suicide Risk Assessment; Personality Assessment Inventory

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  • Kene, P. (2007). Utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory in Assessing Suicide Risk [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1196965938

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kene, Prachi. Utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory in Assessing Suicide Risk. 2007. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1196965938.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kene, Prachi. "Utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory in Assessing Suicide Risk." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1196965938

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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