Data from: Psychological Pain in Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Populations: Findings from the Translated German Mee-Bunney Psychological Pain Assessment Scale (Summary and Raw Trial-Level Data)

This repository accompanies the article "Psychological Pain in Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Populations: Findings from the Translated German Mee-Bunney Psychological Pain Assessment Scale":

Aschenbrenner, L. M., Brogna, S., Teismann, T., Frei, A., Sedlinská, M. A., Glaesmer, H., Forkmann, T., Walther, S., Ehnvall, A., & Gysin-Maillart, A. (2025). Psychological Pain in Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Populations: Findings from the Translated German Mee-Bunney Psychological Pain Assessment Scale. Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research, 1–17. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2025.2573059

The research was designed to test two primary hypotheses: (1) that psychological pain levels differ meaningfully between groups with varying histories of suicidal ideation and behaviour (i.e., attempters, ideators, non-suicidal psychiatric patients, and non-clinical controls), and (2) that the German version of the MBPPAS demonstrates sound psychometric properties, including internal consistency and construct validity.

The data were collected as part of a cross-sectional study involving psychiatric inpatients and non-clinical controls. Participants completed a battery of self-report questionnaires, including the German-translated MBPPAS, along with established measures of depression and suicidal ideation.

In the dataset, participant IDs were anonymised using randomly generated numbers to ensure privacy. The dataset includes the following anonymised individual-level data on:

* Randomised numbers as placeholders for IDs
* Demographic variables, i.e., age and gender
* Group classification (based on suicidal behaviour and ideation history)
* Sample
* MBPPAS at item level and its sum score
* Sum scores on other relevant psychological scales (SIBS, SBQ-R, BDI-II, BSS, PMH)

This dataset is provided to enable replication of the analyses reported in the associated publication.

File Included:
`rawdata_pp_summarised.sav` – SPSS dataset