Hopelessness in adolescents
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.10.048
Hopelessness in adolescents
Abstract
Background: The hopelessness scales devised by Beck and by Kazdin have been used in hundreds of studies of both non-clinical and clinical samples. The present study identified non-clinical adolescent samples to see if the mean scores differed by age, sex, year of publication of the study, and nation.
Methods: Studies of school students administered the Beck Hopelessness Scale or the Kazdin Hopelessness Scale for Children were identified from a literature search using PsycINFO and the search term "hopelessness" anywhere in the text. Seventy-eight studies were found reporting mean scores, 44 for American students and 34 for students in other countries.
Results: The scores of American students were significantly lower than those of students in other countries, and there was a tendency for boys to have higher scores than girls (in 18 of the 27 studies which reported differences by sex). There was no tendency for the hopelessness scores of American students to have increased in recent years.
Conclusions: American adolescents appear to be less hopeless than adolescent in other nations, and the scores of American adolescents do not seem to have changed significantly over the last 30 years.
Keywords: Adolescents; Cross-national studies; Hopelessness.
Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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