Assessing motivations for suicide attempts: development and psychometric properties of the inventory of motivations for suicide attempts.

@article{May2013AssessingMF,
  title={Assessing motivations for suicide attempts: development and psychometric properties of the inventory of motivations for suicide attempts.},
  author={Alexis M. May and Elisha David Klonsky},
  journal={Suicide \& life-threatening behavior},
  year={2013},
  volume={43 5},
  pages={
          532-46
        }
}
This study describes the psychometric properties of the Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (IMSA). The IMSA was designed to comprehensively assess motivations for suicide emphasized by major theories of suicidality. The IMSA was administered to two samples of recent suicide attempters, undergraduates (n = 66) and outpatients (n = 53). The IMSA exhibited a reliable two-factor structure in which one factor represented Intrapersonal motivations related to ending emotional pain, and the… 
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