Professor David Lester, one of the most prolific producers (more than 2500 publications so far!) of academic publications, is still reliably cranking out nuggets. This is one of his latest:
“A scale to measure the desire to be dead,” David Lester, Omega, 2013;67(3):323-7. Professor Lester explains:
“The aim of the present research was to develop a brief scale to measure the wish to be dead. Two samples of undergraduate students were administered a brief 10-item scale to measure the wish to be dead…. The wish to be dead scale [appears to] measure a state of mind different from suicidal ideation and obsession with death.”
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