Citation

Pompili M, Tatarelli R, Rogers JR, Lester D. Psychol. Rep. 2007; 100(2): 375-378.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Sant' Andrea Hospital, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. maurizio.pompili@uniroma1.it

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17564211

Abstract

A confirmatory factor analysis of the Beck Hopelessness Scale in a sample of 340 Italian students did not support the 3-factor model reported for previous samples of psychiatric patients. A follow-up principal axis factor analysis yielded two interpretable correlated factors, suggesting that the structure of the scale may differ across clinical and nonclinical groups and as a function of nationality.

Language: en