Table 2.

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI) and the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSI) with principal axis factoring estimation

	SSI		BSI
Items	Factor 1	Communalities	Items	Factor 1	Communalities
SSI 1	0.682	0.465	BSI 1	0.733	0.538
SSI 2	0.845	0.714	BSI 2	0.851	0.724
SSI 3	0.770	0.594	BSI 3	0.789	0.622
SSI 4	0.797	0.635	BSI 4	0.775	0.600
SSI 5	0.641	0.410	BSI 5	0.576	0.332
SSI 6	0.707	0.499	BSI 6	0.726	0.528
SSI 7	0.744	0.553	BSI 7	0.773	0.598
SSI 8	0.554	0.307	BSI 8	0.751	0.565
SSI 9	0.469	0.220	BSI 9	0.402	0.162
SSI 10	0.496	0.246	BSI 10	0.543	0.295
SSI 11	0.331	0.110	BSI 11	0.155	0.024
SSI 12	0.676	0.456	BSI 12	0.607	0.369
SSI 13	0.499	0.249	BSI 13	0.593	0.351
SSI 14	0.639	0.408	BSI 14	0.641	0.411
SSI 15	0.813	0.661	BSI 15	0.842	0.709
SSI 16	0.709	0.503	BSI 16	0.740	0.548
SSI 17	0.472	0.223	BSI 17	0.436	0.190
SSI 18	0.375	0.140	BSI 18	0.201	0.041
SSI 19	0.232	0.054	BSI 19	0.188	0.036