A brief research note: helplessness, hopelessness, and haplessness as predictors of suicidal ideation: a cross-cultural study

Faruk Gençöz; Sevginar Vatan; Rheeda Walker; David Lester

doi:10.2190/OM.57.3.f

A brief research note: helplessness, hopelessness, and haplessness as predictors of suicidal ideation: a cross-cultural study

Omega (Westport). 2008;57(3):315-8. doi: 10.2190/OM.57.3.f.

Authors

Faruk Gençöz¹, Sevginar Vatan, Rheeda Walker, David Lester

Affiliation

¹ Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

PMID: 18837177
DOI: 10.2190/OM.57.3.f

Abstract

Scales to measure helplessness and hopelessness were found to have good reliability and were significantly correlated with suicidal ideation in both Turkish and American respondents.

MeSH terms

Adult
Attitude to Death / ethnology*
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Depression / ethnology*
Depression / psychology
Female
Humans
Internal-External Control*
Male
Motivation
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Social Environment
Students / psychology
Students / statistics & numerical data*
Suicide, Attempted / ethnology*
Suicide, Attempted / psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Turkey / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology