An Examination of Measurement Invariance of the Brief Suicide Cognitions Scale.

Authors

Austin G Starkey, Raymond P Tucker, Ryan M Hill

Published in

Suicide & life-threatening behavior. Volume 55. Issue 5. Pages e70057.

Abstract

The Brief Suicide Cognitions Scale (B-SCS) is a self-report measure of suicidogenic cognitions. This study evaluated measurement invariance of the B-SCS among different subgroups. Secondarily, this study sought to evaluate the replicability of the psychometric validity, reliability, and factor structure of the B-SCS.
Participants included undergraduate students (N = 2000) recruited between 2022 and 2023. Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) were conducted comparing participants by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
Results support the existence of a unidimensional factor structure of the B-SCS. Multigroup CFA analyses yielded all levels of measurement invariance across White and Black, Hispanic and Non-Hispanic, cisgender men and women, and heterosexual and sexual minority individuals. Additionally, the B-SCS was found to have strong internal consistency and good concurrent validity. Finally, the B-SCS was able to discriminate between participants who had a history of suicide attempts and those who did not.
These results indicate that the B-SCS is a valid and reliable tool to be used in assessing suicidogenic cognitions. Moreover, results from measurement invariance analyses indicate that this tool may be viable to use within specific sub-populations examined within this study.

PMID:
41110115
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 20 Oct 2025.

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