Citation

Kovacs M, Beck AT, Weissman A. Suicide 1975; 5(2): 98-103.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Human Sciences Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1224378

Abstract

In a sample of 87 hospitalized suicide attempters, a hopelessness scale was found to be significantly better than a depression inventory as an indicator of suicidal risk. Hopelessness also correlated better than depression with self-ratings of the attenuation of the desire to go on living.