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Hopelessness
Author(s) -
Kovacs Maria,
Beck Aaron T.,
Weissman Arlene
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1975.tb00317.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , suicidal behavior , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , economics , macroeconomics
In a sample of 87 hospitalized suicide attempters, a hopelessness scale was found to be significantly better than a depression inventory as an indicator of suicidal risk. Hopelessness also correlated better than depression with self‐ratings of the attenuation of the desire to go on living.