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    The Beck Hopelessness Scale is a 20-item self-report measure designed to assess negative attitudes about the future. It was developed by Aaron Beck to predict suicide risk and takes 5-10 minutes to complete. The scale demonstrates good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Concurrent validity has been established through correlations with clinical ratings of hopelessness. Norms are based on a sample of 294 psychiatric inpatients who had attempted suicide. The scale is recommended for measuring negative attitudes in clinical and research settings.

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    The Beck Hopelessness Scale is a 20-item self-report measure designed to assess negative attitudes about the future. It was developed by Aaron Beck to predict suicide risk and takes 5-10 minutes to complete. The scale demonstrates good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Concurrent validity has been established through correlations with clinical ratings of hopelessness. Norms are based on a sample of 294 psychiatric inpatients who had attempted suicide. The scale is recommended for measuring negative attitudes in clinical and research settings.

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    The Beck Hopelessness Scale is a 20-item self-report measure designed to assess negative attitudes about the future. It was developed by Aaron Beck to predict suicide risk and takes 5-10 minutes to complete. The scale demonstrates good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Concurrent validity has been established through correlations with clinical ratings of hopelessness. Norms are based on a sample of 294 psychiatric inpatients who had attempted suicide. The scale is recommended for measuring negative attitudes in clinical and research settings.

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    Beck Hopelessness Scale

    Purpose: Designed to measure negative attitudes about the future.

    Population: Ages 17 and over.

    Score: A total scale score.

    Time: (5-10) minutes.

    Author: Aaron T. Beck.

    Publisher: The Psychological Corporation.

    Description: The Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) is a 20-item scale for measuring negative
    attitudes about the future. Beck originally developed this scale in order to predict who would
    commit suicide and who would not. The conceptual basis for the scale derives from the writings
    of the social psychologist Ezra Stotland.

    Scoring: Scoring is straightforward; one simply adds up each of the items marked in the
    direction keyed for "hopelessness." Using the scoring template, one counts the number of
    blackened circles that show up under the circles on the template. The user bases his or her
    interpretation on the total scale score. The manual contains general cutoff guidelines, although
    the author recommends that cut-off scores should be based upon clinical decisions.

    Reliability: The manual reports KR-20 coefficients (measures of the scale's internal consistency)
    ranging from .82 to .93. The manual states that when 21 patients with mixed diagnoses were
    tested at the Center for Cognitive Therapy both during an intake evaluation and 1 week later,
    before beginning their therapy, the correlation between their scores on the two occasions was
    .69. In another sample of patients from the Center for Cognitive Therapy (N = 99), the test-retest
    reliability over a 6-week span was .66. Both of these test-retest coefficients are statistically
    significant.

    Validity: Concurrent validity. Beck examined the relationship between clinical ratings of
    hopelessness and BHS scores in two samples: a) 23 outpatients in a general medical practice and
    b) 62 hospitalized patients who had recently attempted suicide. In the general practice sample,
    the correlation between the BHS and the ratings of hopelessness was .74; in the suicide-attempt
    sample, it was .62.

    Norms: The normative sample consisted of 294 psychiatric inpatients who had made recent
    suicide attempts. This sample included 125 men and 169 women. Of the total sample, 150 were
    white, 139 were black, and 5 belonged to other racial groups. The average age was 29.9 years.
    On average, the participants had finished 10.85 years of school. As to marital status, 41.5% were
    single, 17.3% were married, 31.6% were separated or divorced, 2.7% were widowed. and the rest
    were unmarried but living together or of unknown status.
    Suggested Uses: The BHS is recommended for measuring extent of negative attitudes in clinical
    and research settings.

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