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Assessing the validity of the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale
M Koslowsky1, A Bleich, A Greenspoon
1Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Journal of Psychiatric Research
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
One of the newer scales of suicide risk devised by Plutchik and colleagues was tested to see if it could discriminate between levels of suicide ideation and suicide attempts. A sample of 80 subjects were placed into various categories of suicide risk on the basis of a psychiatric examination. Results showed that the full scale did not adequately discriminate among groups. An explantation of the results has been proposed and a design to test this suggestion described.