The Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30:
Further Validation With Adolescent
Psychiatric Inpatients
Augustine Osman
University of Northern Iowa
Peter M. Gutierrez
Northern Illinois University
Francisco X. Barrios
University of Northern Iowa
Courtney L. Bagge
University of Missouri-Columbia
Beverly A. Kopper and Sena Linden
University of Northern Iowa
The present study examined the construct validity of the Inventory of Suicide
Orientation-30 (ISO-30; King & Kowalchuk, 1994) with a sample of ado-
lescent psychiatric inpatients. The ISO-30 is designed to assess five dimen-
sions of risk factors related to suicide: hopelessness, suicide ideation, low
self-esteem, inability to cope with emotions, and social isolation and with-
drawal. Participants included 202 psychiatric hospitalized (106 boys, 96
girls) adolescents, ages 14 to 17 years. Confirmatory factor analyses pro-
vided support for the fit of the original five-factor oblique model. Reliability
estimates of the study measures were adequate. Evidence of discriminant,
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Augustine Osman, University of Northern
Iowa, Department of Psychology, 334 Baker Hall, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0505; e-mail: augustine.osman@
uni.edu.
Portions of this paper were presented at the Kansas Conference in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology,
Lawrence, KS (October 2002).
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 61(4), 481–497 (2005) © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20086