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Some psychometric characteristics of the Beck's Hopelessness Scale

Summary/Abstract: 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 alfa = 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.

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