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The hopelessness scale for children: psychometric characteristics and concurrent validity.

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This article is published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.The article was published on 1986-04-01. It has received 504 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Concurrent validity & Test validity.

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Contextual features and behavioral functions of self-mutilation among adolescents.

TL;DR: Considering the functions of SMB clarified the relations between SMB and other clinical constructs reported in previous studies such as suicide attempts, posttraumatic stress, and social concerns and has direct implications for the assessment and treatment ofSMB.
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Risk Factors for Suicide and Attempted Suicide among Young People

TL;DR: Current research evidence suggests that the strongest risk factors for youth suicide are mental disorders (in particular, affective disorders, substance use disorders and antisocial behaviours) and a history of psychopathology, indicating that priorities for intervening to reduce youth suicidal behaviours lie with interventions focused upon the improved recognition, treatment and management of young people with mental disorders.
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Factors associated with the use of violence among urban black adolescents.

TL;DR: Self-reported use of violence was associated with exposure to violence and personal victimization, hopelessness, depression, family conflict, previous corporal punishment, purpose in life, self-assessment of the probability of being alive at age 25, and age and was higher among males.
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Social Information Processing in Aggressive and Depressed Children.

TL;DR: Comparisons of social information processing patterns of children who were identified as being aggressive or depressed, both, or neither were compared in order to address the issue of specificity and to explore whether children who are comorbid show a unique processing style.
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ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: Pathways and Processes of Risk and Resilience

TL;DR: Modelling of Adolescent Development: Transactional, Interdisciplinary, and Contextual Approaches finds that traditional approaches to adolescent development are inadequate and suggest alternatives that are more effective and effective in the short term.
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The measurement of pessimism: the hopelessness scale.

TL;DR: A scale designed to quantify hopelessness was administered to several diverse samples of patients to assess its psychometric properties and was found to have a high degree of internal consistency and showed a relatively high correlation with the clinical ratings of hopelessness and other self-administered measures of despair.