Open AccessSome psychometric characteristics of the Beck's Hopelessness Scale
Author(s) -
Zdenka Novović,
Vesna Gavrilov,
Snežana Tovilović,
Miklós Bíró
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
psihologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1451-9283
pISSN - 0048-5705
DOI - 10.2298/psi0501077n
Subject(s) - psychology , beck hopelessness scale , cronbach's alpha , clinical psychology , construct validity , confirmatory factor analysis , anxiety , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , internal consistency , beck depression inventory , psychiatry , structural equation modeling , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics
The study tested reliability and construct validity of Serbian translation of Beck's Hopelessness scale on a sample of patients diagnosed as a depressive, anxious and anxious-depressive disorder. Scale was found to have a high degree of internal consistency (Cronbach alpha = 0.91). Principal component analysis, with Scree-test as the criterion of extraction, provided single factor as the best solution. Hopelessness Scale highly correlated with symptoms of depression, low self-concept and depressive automatic thoughts which the authors interpreted as the confirmation of Beck's theory. The hypothesis that hopelessness is construct specific to depression and not to anxiety is, also, confirmed