Standardization of Reasons for Living Inventory for adolescents: Diagnosis, appraisal, therapy and rehabilitation of people who attempt to suicide

In this study, assessed the reliability, validity, and predictive power of a new version of thereasons for living inventory for adolescents (rfl–a; osman et al., 1998) among iranian adolescents inthe city of kermanshah.methods: to examine this study a group of 400(189 males and 211 females) adolescents in high schoolsof kermanshah and adolescents that had attempted to suicide and been cared in emam khomeini hospitalselected to complete, the rfl–a, beck suicide scale ideation (bssi; beck et al., 1999), beck hopelessnessscale (bhs; beck et al., 1974) and oxford happens inventory (ohi). additional information aboutthe sample group including diagnosis and suicide status were obtained from their educational and medicalrecords and documents.results: it was determined that the rfl–a is a valid and reliable measure of adolescent suicide riskpotential. additionally, the rfl–a possesses better predictive value than the beck hopelessness scale(beck, weismann, lester, & trexler, 1974).conclusion: the results showed the clinical and research utility of the rfl–a specially in the work withsuicide is included along with suggestions for future research. in addition, we could use this scale for diagnosis,appraisal, therapy and rehabilitation of people with history of suicide attempt.