Scholarly Saturday: Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attemps (IMSA)

This week is the American Association of Suicidology national conference. People are live tweeting resources and quotes from the conference and this one peaked my interest..

May: Why do adolescents attempt? Explored with Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (IMSA) #AAS15 #youth

— Linda Langford (@LindaLangford) April 16, 2015

I had not heard of this scale and was curious how one can measure this concept. It is a great scale and here is the research that backs it up..

May, A. M., & Klonsky, E. D. (2013). Assessing motivations for suicide attempts: development and psychometric properties of the inventory of motivations for suicide attempts. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 43(5), 532-546.

The scale is in the public domain and right in the article. It can be used for clinical and research applications. You can also find more about Dr. Klonsky at his Personality, Research, and Emotion Lab.

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