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Hopelessness

1975; Wiley; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1943-278x.1975.tb00317.x

1943-278X

Mária Kovács, Aaron T. Beck, Arlene Weissman,

Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

ABSTRACT: 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.