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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 17.
Published before final editing as: Assessment. 2019 Jan 17:1073191118824660. doi: 10.1177/1073191118824660

Table 5.

Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Analyses Statistics and the Clinical Cutoff Scores of Unstandardized Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness Scores as Separate Predictors of Desire for Death and Desire for Suicide

  Total Sample:
Desire for Death
(BSS item 2)
Men Subsample:
Desire for Death
(BSS item 2)
Women Subsample:
Desire for Death
(BSS item 2)
Total Sample:
Desire for
Suicide
(BSS item 4)

TB Maximum Youden Index 0.37 ---- ---- 0.41
TB Sensitivity 0.88 ---- ---- 0.95
TB Specificity 0.49 ---- ---- 0.46
TB Area Under the Curve 0.74 ---- ---- 0.74
TB Cutoff Score 35 ---- ---- 50

PB Maximum Youden Index 0.56 0.72 0.51 0.57
PB Sensitivity 0.79 0.96 0.87 0.89
PB Specificity 0.77 0.76 0.65 0.68
PB Area Under the Curve 0.85 0.93 0.82 0.83
PB Cutoff Score 19 22 17 30

Note. TB = Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire Thwarted Belongingness Score; PB = Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire Perceived Burdensomeness Score; BSS item 2 = Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation item 2 assessing desire for death; BSS item 4 = Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation item 4 assessing desire for suicide.