The Reasons for Living Inventory has 6 subscales, each of which assesses a category of adaptive beliefs & expectations considered reasons for not committing suicide. The psychometric properties of the inventory were tested in a college student sample. Each subject was administered the inventory twice. 26 items were consistently endorsed by 30% or more of the total sample as “extremely important”, while only 4 were suggested as “not at all important” reasons for not committing suicide. (24 refs.)