We study the relations between a generalization of pseudocompactness, named (κ, M )-pseudocompactness, the countably compactness of subspaces of βω and the pseudocompactness of their hyperspaces. We show, by assuming the existence of c-many selective ultrafilters, that there exists a subspace of βω that is (κ, ω * )-pseudocompact for all κ < c, but CL(X) isn't pseudocompact. We prove in ZFC that if ω ⊆ X ⊆ βω is such that X is (c, ω * )-pseudocompact, then CL(X) is pseudocompact, and we further explore this relation by replacing c for some small cardinals. We provide an example of a subspace of βω for which all powers below h are countably compact whose hyperspace is not pseudocompact, we show that if ω ⊆ X, the pseudocompactness of CL(X) implies that X is (κ, ω * )-pseudocompact for all κ < h, and provide an example of such an X that is not (b, ω * )-pseudocompact.