Feelings of hopelessness in a Spanish university population

Viñas, Ferrán; Villar, Esperanza; Caparrós, Beatriz; Juan, Jaume; Cornella, Montserrat; Ruiz-Pérez, Isabel

doi:10.1007/s00127-004-0756-2

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“…The BHS has three subscales: affective hopelessness-associated with hope and enthusiasm and called Feelings about the future; motivational hopelessness-called Loss of motivation, related to giving up and not trying to get something that is desired; and cognitive hopelessnesslabelled Future expectations, including expectations about oneˈs future life. Level of hopelessness is a predictive factor for suicide in the clinical population, and this scale has been validated in the Spanish population (Viñas et al, 2004). In our data, the internal consistency was adequate for the total score, α = 0.88, and for the subscales: BHS-affective (α = 0.71), BHS-motivational (α = 0.81) and BHS-cognitive (α = 0.71).…”

Section: Assessments and Measuressupporting

confidence: 51%

Psychopathological Differences Between Suicide Ideators and Suicide Attempters in Patients with Mental Disorders

Pérez

Marco

García‐Alandete

2016

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Recent suicide attempters show higher levels of hopelessness, borderline symptoms and NSSI than lifetime attempters and suicide ideators. Clinicians should focus attention on assessing hopelessness, borderline symptoms and NSSI in those with suicide ideation. Lower levels of meaning in life are related to recent suicide attempts. Levels of hopelessness differentiate between recent and lifetime suicide attempters.

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Section: Assessments and Measuressupporting

confidence: 51%

Psychopathological Differences Between Suicide Ideators and Suicide Attempters in Patients with Mental Disorders

Pérez

Marco

García‐Alandete

2016

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…The BHS addresses affective, motivational, and cognitive issues related to hopelessness. It has been validated in the Spanish population (Viñas et al, 2004). In our study, the internal consistency for the BHS was high, α = .93.…”

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confidence: 59%

Body image and nonsuicidal self‐injury: Validation of the Body Investment Scale in participants with eating disorders

Marco

Cañabate

García‐Alandete

et al. 2017

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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The Body Investment Scale (BIS) assesses body image feelings, body care, protection of the body, and comfort in touch, in order to identify and distinguish participants with self-harming and self-destructive tendencies. However, the psychometric properties of the BIS were not analysed in participants diagnosed with eating disorders. The main objective of the present study is to confirm the factor structure of the Spanish version of the BIS and analyse its psychometric properties in a sample composed of women diagnosed with eating disorders. Participants were 250 Spanish women between 12 and 60 years old (M = 26.05, SD = 11.97) diagnosed with eating disorders. A confirmatory factor analysis showed a poor fit of the original BIS. The final model showed an acceptable 4-factor structure (Body Feelings, α = .88; Body Touch, α = .82; Body Protection, α = .77; Body Care, α = .68), with a good fit to the data (SBχ = 393.21, CFI = .906, IFI = .908, RMSEA = .049). The relationships between the BIS and both the Purpose-In-Life Test-10 Items and Beck Hopelessness Scale were analysed, as well as differences in the BIS score according to nonsuicidal self-injuries and suicidal ideation in the past year. The BIS is an appropriate instrument to assess the body investment dimension of body image in women with eating disorders.

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“…It is important to study depression among university students because most lifetime mental disorders have their first onset during the typical university age [27], and the mental health of university students has major implications for campus health services and mental health policy making [6], [28].…”

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Depression among Chinese University Students: Prevalence and Socio-Demographic Correlates

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The purpose of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of depression in Chinese university students, and to identify the socio-demographic factors associated with depression in this population. A multi-stage stratified sampling procedure was used to select university students (N = 5245) in Harbin (Heilongjiang Province, Northeastern China), who were aged 16–35 years. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was used to determine depressive symptoms of the participants. BDI scores of 14 or higher were categorized as depressive for logistic regression analysis. Depression was diagnosed by the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID) for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). 11.7% of the participants had a BDI score 14 or higher. Major Depressive Disorder was seen in 4.0% of Chinese university students. There were no statistical differences in the incidence of depression when gender, ethnicity, and university classification were analyzed. Multivariate analysis showed that age, study year, satisfaction with major, family income situation, parental relationship and mother's education were significantly associated with depression. Moderate depression is prevalent in Chinese university students. The students who were older, dissatisfied with their major, had a lower family income, poor parental relationships, and a lower level of mother's education were susceptible to depression.

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Feelings of hopelessness in a Spanish university population

Cited by 62 publications

References 36 publications

Psychopathological Differences Between Suicide Ideators and Suicide Attempters in Patients with Mental Disorders

Psychopathological Differences Between Suicide Ideators and Suicide Attempters in Patients with Mental Disorders

Body image and nonsuicidal self‐injury: Validation of the Body Investment Scale in participants with eating disorders

Depression among Chinese University Students: Prevalence and Socio-Demographic Correlates

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