PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES OF SUICIDAL IDEATION IN ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS

The Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSI) was administered to 121 inpa tients between 12 and 17 years old who were diagnosed with mixed psych iatric disorders. Twelve background and clinical characteristics, prev iously found to be associated with adolescent suicidal ideation, were entered into a multiple regression to estimate the BSI scores, along w ith the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the revised Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), and the Youth Self-Report. T he BHS and the BDI were the only two variables that contributed unique variance to the explanation of the BSI scores.