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Hatice Deveci Sirin; Rana Sen Dogan; Hüseyin Serçe; Eda Bayrakci; Selahattin Alan – SAGE Open, 2024
Under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is of vital importance to explore its impact on the psychological wellbeing of the students in higher education. Accordingly, this research investigated hopelessness among students at a state university in Turkey throughout the pandemic. The research was conducted in two separate studies, one…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Psychological Patterns, Well Being
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Mark, Lauraliisa; Värnik, Airi; Sisask, Merike – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: Bullying has been associated with many mental health problems. The effect of bullying has been found to be affected by the way students are involved in bullying. The purpose of the study was to explore the association between mental well-being, hopelessness, and being involved in bullying (as a bully, victim, or bully-victim), and to…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Mental Health, Well Being
Karagun, Elif – Online Submission, 2016
Although Physical Education and Sports course has become a current issue with the discourses such as removal of the course from schools and reduction of the course hours, it is also considered as an important means in socialization, personality development and acquisition of physical and mental health. However, it is seen that studies where the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Gana, Kamel; Daigre, Stephanie; Ledrich, Julie – Assessment, 2013
In this article, we present a French adaptation and validation of the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale (ADHS). The sample was composed of 310 French adults. We found that the ADHS scores demonstrated good reliability as well as adequate temporal stability. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) supported a bifactorial structure of the scale. The two…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Adults, Psychological Patterns, French
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Fisher, Lauren B.; Overholser, James C. – Death Studies, 2013
Despite its high sensitivity, the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) has demonstrated low specificity, has an ambiguous factor structure, and includes inadequate items. The current study examined the psychometric properties of a modified BHS (mBHS) using a Likert scale format that would allow for improved reliability, validity, and clinical utility.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Likert Scales, Depression (Psychology), Undergraduate Students
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Pompili, Maurizio; Lester, David; Innamorati, Marco; Narciso, Valentina; Vento, Alessandro; De Pisa, Eleonora; Tatarelli, Roberto; Girardi, Paolo – Death Studies, 2007
The associations between risk-taking, hopelessness, and reasons for living were explored in a sample of 312 Italian students. Respondents completed the Physical Risk Assessment Inventory, the Physical Risk-Taking Behavior Inventory, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and the Reasons for Living Inventory. Students with lower scores on the Reasons for…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Risk, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
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Huth-Bocks, Alissa C.; Kerr, David C. R.; Ivey, Asha Z.; Kramer, Anne C.; King, Cheryl A. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: The validity and clinical utility of the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale, Beck Hopelessness Scale, Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire-Junior, and Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) were examined longitudinally among suicidal adolescents. Method: Between 1998 and 2000, 289 psychiatrically hospitalized, suicidal youth, ages 12 to 17 years,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Probability, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)