July 27, 2025Salud MentalOpen Access

Psychometric properties of the Acquired Capability for Suicide Scale in Mexican adolescents

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AGAlejandra Viridiana Gutiérrez-García CSCaroline SilvaUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana CBCorina Benjet

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Confirmatory analysis identified reliability and predictive validity in adolescents, highlighting differences between clinical and non-clinical groups.

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The adapted scale demonstrated strong predictive validity for lifetime suicide attempts, explaining 16.4% of variance.
Reliability was higher in clinical adolescents (α = .87) compared to non-clinical adolescents (α = .67).
The factor structure revealed stability in the Fearlessness about death factor across both populations, while Pain tolerance varied in clinical samples.
Overall classification accuracy of the model reached 80.3%, indicating effective identification of risk for suicide attempts.

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Gutiérrez-García et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af2d7ccf1dd9ea359e57a7 https://doi.org/10.17711/sm.0185-3325.2025.018

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Confirmatory analysis identified reliability and predictive validity in adolescents, highlighting differences between clinical and non-clinical groups.

Psychometric properties of the Acquired Capability for Suicide Scale in Mexican adolescents

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Psychometric properties of the Acquired Capability for Suicide Scale in Mexican adolescents

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