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Wu, Kitty K.; Lu, C. C.; Chan, C. M. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1996
Examines a scale that assesses prisoners' (N=1,655) emotional states and suicidal tendency. Results indicate that the scale has both high test-retest reliability and internal consistency. Subscales showed significant discriminant power in differentiating the high- and low-risk groups which were classified according to various measures of suicidal…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries, Predictive Measurement, Prisoners