validation of the suicide resilience inventory

abstract aim: suicide is one of the mental health problems and the tendency to suicide is one of the most important indicators of the population&apos;s mental health. since this phenomenon can be prevented, early detection is very important. the present research aimed at constructing and validating the resilience to suicide questionnaire. method: to this end, 200 students in shiraz university participated in the analysis of the psychometric properties of this questionnaire. results: the reliability of the questionnaire was investigated through test, retest and the cronbach’s alpha and the reliability coefficients were calculated to be 0.93 and 0.83 respectively. to study the validity of this questionnaire, 4 methods were used. the construct validity of the resilience to suicide questionnaire was investigated by determining the correlation coefficient between this questionnaire and the beck depression inventory π and the correlation coefficients were calculated to be of -0.60 (p< .001). heuristic factor analysis, through the principle components analysis by varimax rotation for resilience to suicide questionnaire resulted in three factors that were called emotional stability, internal protective factor and external protective factor respectively accounting in general for 72.74 percent of the total variance. moreover, the research results showed that all of the items in resilience to suicide questionnaire had a significant correlation with the total score and there were significant correlations among all of the subscales of the questionnaire and between the subscales and the total score as well. conclusion: therefore, resilience to suicide questionnaire was recognized as qualified to be used in various studies for students in iran.     article information: history: receipt: 2013/08/06 revise: 2013/09/26 acceptance: 2013/10/20     keywords: resilience to suicide questionnaire, validity, reliability.