TY - JOUR
T1 - The Suicide and Aggression Survey
T2 - A semistructured instrument for the measurement of suicidality and aggression
AU - Korn, Martin L.
AU - Botsis, Alexander J.
AU - Kotler, Moshe
AU - Plutchik, Robert
AU - Conte, Hope R.
AU - Finkelstein, Graciela
AU - Grosz, Daniel
AU - Kay, Stanley
AU - Brown, Serena Lynn
AU - van Praag, Herman M.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of MedicrnelMontejiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY Supported in part by American Suicide Foundation Grant No. 8255. Address reprint requests to Robert Plutchik, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Room 150, Pelham Pkwy S & Eastchester Rd, Bronx, NY10461. Copyright 0 1992 by W.B. Saunders Company 0010-440X19213306-0016$03.0010
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Despite the rising concern with the increasing rate of violent and suicidal behaviors in this country and others, we remain relatively limited in our ability to rigorously define, classify, and measure these behaviors. In addition to our previous work in developing self-rating scales assessing aspects of aggressive behaviors, we have developed the Suicide and Aggression Survey (SAS), a new, comprehensive, semistructured interview and research tool, for the purpose of comprehensively evaluating and understanding the multiple constituents of these behaviors, and for assisting in predicting which individuals might be at high risk for suicide or violence. The present report describes the need for such an instrument and the theoretical models that have guided us in constructing it; one of these is a sequential description of the major classes of variables related to aggression and the other is a two-stage model of countervailing forces. Preliminary reliability data and a description of the structure of the interview are included.
AB - Despite the rising concern with the increasing rate of violent and suicidal behaviors in this country and others, we remain relatively limited in our ability to rigorously define, classify, and measure these behaviors. In addition to our previous work in developing self-rating scales assessing aspects of aggressive behaviors, we have developed the Suicide and Aggression Survey (SAS), a new, comprehensive, semistructured interview and research tool, for the purpose of comprehensively evaluating and understanding the multiple constituents of these behaviors, and for assisting in predicting which individuals might be at high risk for suicide or violence. The present report describes the need for such an instrument and the theoretical models that have guided us in constructing it; one of these is a sequential description of the major classes of variables related to aggression and the other is a two-stage model of countervailing forces. Preliminary reliability data and a description of the structure of the interview are included.
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U2 - 10.1016/0010-440X(92)90056-V
DO - 10.1016/0010-440X(92)90056-V
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AN - SCOPUS:0026540155
SN - 0010-440X
VL - 33
SP - 359
EP - 365
JO - Comprehensive Psychiatry
JF - Comprehensive Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -
