Table 1.

Adaptation of Walker and Avant steps of concept analysis.

Steps of concept analysis	Description of the steps in this study
1. Select a concept	Suicide resilience was selected as the concept for this analysis
2. Determine the aims of analysis	This analysis aimed to conceptualize suicide resilience
3. Identify all uses of the concept	Identify possible uses of the concept of suicide resilience from various resources such as dictionaries and research databases
4. Determine the defining attributes	Determine the characteristics that are most frequently associated with the concept of suicide resilience
5. Identify a model case	Identify an example of suicide resilience that contains all the defining attributes
6. Identify additional cases	Two additional cases (borderline and contrary cases) were identified in this analysis. A borderline case is an instance that contains most (but not all) defining attributes of suicide resilience. A contrary case is an instance that contains none of the attributes
7. Identify antecedents and consequences	Identify the events that take place prior to the occurrence of suicide resilience, and those occur as an outcome of the appearance of suicide resilience
8. Define empirical referents	Define the empirical referents that measure the existence and attributes of suicide resilience