Beck Hopelessness Scale.

BHS

What it measures

Negative expectancies about the future / hopelessness across three facets (feelings about the future, loss of motivation, future expectations); a suicide-risk-relevant construct adjacent to depression

Length and format

20 items. True/false (0/1), summed 0-20; bands 0-3 minimal, 4-8 mild, 9-14 moderate, 15-20 severe (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many languages incl. ES, FR, DE, ZH, IT, TR, FA, PT and others

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Beck, A. T., Weissman, A., Lester, D., & Trexler, L. (1974). The measurement of pessimism: the Hopelessness Scale. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42(6), 861-865.