Suicidal Ideation Scale Test

Many people look for an am i suicidal test the first time thoughts of death start to scare them. Those thoughts can be a passing flicker on a bad evening or a heavy presence that stays for days, and from the inside the two feel alike. This suicidal thoughts test separates them and turns your answers into one clear number with its parts behind it.

What the scale measures

The Suicidal Ideation Scale was introduced by Aaron Beck, Maria Kovacs and Arlene Weissman in 1979, and its self-report form is widely known as the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation. Your result opens with the overall suicidal ideation level from 0 to 100, the total of the first nineteen items. Below it sit three parts. The wish to die compares the wish to live with the wish to die, the reasons on each side and the pull toward acting. The grip of the thoughts covers how long they last, how often they return, whether you push them away and how much control you feel. Plans and preparation show whether a method, access to it or first steps already exist. Two final items about past attempts appear as a separate line and do not change the total.

How the test works and how to read it

Each of the twenty-one items names one side of suicidal thinking and offers three graded answers, scored zero, one or two. You pick the answer closest to your past week, and most people finish in about four minutes. The answers keep the original wording of the scale, written in the third person, so simply choose the one that describes you. Unlike a quick suicide risk assessment that ends with a single label, the scale shows where the weight sits. Your result includes:

• your suicidal ideation level from 0 to 100 with a plain label: low, moderate or high;
• separate scores for the wish to die, the grip of the thoughts, and plans and preparation;
• the part that weighs on you most and the one that weighs least;
• a comparison with other people who answered the same items.

People who reach the end often find that one part stands far above the others. That part is where the full report starts, and it usually explains more than the total itself.