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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"hopelessness"”.
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Hopelessness in the Institutionalized Elderly
… to powerlessness which ultimately may lead to hopelessness and death. The use of client initiated interventions designed to increase the individual's control of the environment may interrupt the powerlessness, hopelessness and death cycle. The research question for this study addressed the …
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Assessment of Hopelessness in Older Adults: The Development and Initial Validation of the Hopelessness Inventory for Later Life (HILL)
Hopelessness has garnered a wealth of empirical support as an important construct in psychological assessment and treatment. It is more than a symptom of major depression; rather, hopelessness has been shown to be a strong risk factor for physical illness, suicidal behavior, and mortality. In fact, …
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A model of hopelessness, belongingness, engagement, and academic achievement
A path model of hopelessness, belongingness, engagement, and academic achievement was created using variables from Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) data and school records. A sample of 490 African-American students, 49% female and 51% males, were used in data analysis. Sub-samples of 203 stable and 287 …
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Hope, optimism, and hopelessness : conceptual distinctions and empirical associations with suicidal ideation
… well-being. Specifically, hope, optimism, and hopelessness have been associated with positive and negative indicators of mental health, including suicidality. In addition to empirical similarities, these constructs also have substantial conceptual and measurement overlap. Moreover, while …
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The relationship between suicidal phenomena and depression, dysfunctional attitudes, irrational beliefs, and hopelessness
… the Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT), and the Hopelessness Scale (HS). A stepwise discriminant analysis identified seven variables which significantly differentiated the suicidal from the nonsuicidal group. These variables were number of previous attempts, the HS, DAS, subscales 4, 5, and 8 of …
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Perception of Control Over Daily Activities and Hopelessness in Elderly Rural Nursing Home Residents
… control of daily activities with levels of hopelessness in nursing home residents residing in two rural Minnesota nursing homes.<br> 2. To explore the impact of differing staffing patterns in the two facilities as it relates to residents' perception of control and levels of hopelessness.</p>
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The role of hopelessness and procedural justice on depressogenic outcomes in serious adolescent offenders
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Hopelessness and suicidal ideation in adolescents as related to life stress, self-esteem and friendship
… by a high score (determined normatively) on the Hopelessness Scale (Beck, Weissman, Lester, & Trexler, 1974). The literature has shown that suicidal behavior can be represented by a continuum beginning with suicidal ideation and ending with the completed act so those who have thought about …
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Hopelessness and Despair: Alienation and Oppression in <em>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</em> by Carson McCullers.
<p>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter thrust Carson McCullers onto the literary scene at the age of 23. The year was 1940, and anticapitalistic fervor was at its peak. McCullers, familiar with the writings of Karl Marx, expresses in this novel her concern for the exploited classes, her disdain for a …
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Life stress, social support, and problem-solving skills in depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation for an Asian student population: a test of a model
… support etiological model for depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation for a group of Asian foreign students in the United states. Problem-solving skills and social support were hypothesized as two mediators between life stress and dependent variables, such as depression, …
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Identifying Trauma Factors That Predict Suicide Specific Helplessness in Female Veterans with Chronic PTSD Resulting from Military Sexual Trauma
… and depressive symptoms to suicide specific hopelessness. It also examines specifically which of the PTSD symptom clusters is associated with this type of hopelessness along with the interaction of PTSD symptoms and suicide-specific hopelessness as it might relate to suicidal ideation. …
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Depression in underachieving gifted high school students and effects of a brief intervention strategy
… strategy in a single counseling session on Beck Hopelessness Scale scores, progress reported by teachers, and grade point averages. Various attribute variables were also considered. Results from a stepwise multiple regression support the effectiveness of the intervention in improving grade point …
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Cognition and Suicide: The Relationship Between Problem-Solving and Suicidal Behavior
… to explore the relationship between depression, hopelessness, problem-solving skills and suicidality. The study sample included 76 patients presenting for treatment in the Parkland Health and Hospital System: 41 individuals who attempted suicide and required inpatient medical treatment, and 35 …
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From the outside looking in: Sense of belonging, depression, and suicide risk
… measures of depression, suicidal behaviors, hopelessness, life stress, social support, and sense of belonging were completed. Lower sense of belonging was significantly associated with greater severity of depression, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation. In addition, lower sense of belonging …
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Explaining suicidal ideation via psychache and the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior
… in suicide ideation was explained by state hopelessness (IPTS model) and psychological pain (novel model); however, contrary to hypotheses, state hopelessness did not partially mediate the relationship between psychological pain and suicide ideation in the novel model. Hopelessness was a …
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Identifying Depression Utilizing Tumor Necrosis Factor–[alpha] and Endothelial Function in Spinal Cord Injury
… the association between depression symptomology, hopelessness and affect in people with SCI. Mild and moderate depression was identified with Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomology-Self Report (QIDS-SR) in some SCI participants that did not have a current depression diagnosis. SCI individuals …
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Two Steps Too Far: The Three-Step Theory and Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
… regressions demonstrated pain and interpersonal hopelessness interacted to predict greater suicidal ideation and the same relationship was buffered by connectedness. However, IBD symptoms as a source of pain did not substantially contribute to the modelling of suicidal ideation in the context of …
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Cultural Hybridization: Bicultural Self-Efficacy And Resilience In Northern Plains American Indians
… analyzing each criterion variable of anxiety and hopelessness; with ethnicity, age, resilience, Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory - III (NPBI-III) cultural classification, indices of Bicultural </p> <p>Self-Efficacy, and exposure to cumulative negative life events as predictors. Interactions …
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