. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 30.

Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2009 Oct;37(7):917–928. doi: 10.1007/s10802-009-9330-4

Table 5.

Motivators/triggers described by children for suicidal ideation and recurrent thoughts of death and inter-rater reliabilities.

Suicidal Ideation (n=30)
Theme	Illustrative example	n/group	(%)	IRR¹
Anger or Dysphoria	“sometimes I get angry and just want to kill myself”	12/30	(40.0%)	1.0
	“If I get mad I feel like I want to jump off a building”
	“when I get sad about my mom and dad breaking up”
Interpersonal Conflict	“I want to kill myself when my mom gets mad at me”	11/30	(36.7%)	0.95
	“when I am bullied on the bus”
	“I want to kill myself to get away from my brother”
Loss/Abandonment	“I think about killing myself because no one cares about me”	4/30	(9.5%)	1.0
Recurrent Thoughts of Death (n=54)
Theme	Illustrative example	n/group	( %)	IRR¹

Personal Safety Concerns	“getting shot, stabbed, killed”	26/54	(48.2%)	0.84
	“I think about death, it scares me, I think about gunshots”
	“I think about getting sick and dying”
Family Member Died/Injured	“I think about my grandma who died”	9/54	(16.7%)	0.88
Worries about Family Member	“I think about my mom dying”	10/54	(18.5%)	0.88

Note. Inter-rater reliability (Kappa coefficient)