Abstract
Suicide and Time Perspective: an Examination of Beck and Yufit’s Suicide-Risk Indicators
Lennings C J
An investigation with 86 university students tested the concurrent & convergent validity of Beck’s & Yufit’s scales of suicide risk. Moderate correlations were found between these 2 scales. Both authors had stressed the importance of time perspective in the development of their scales. Beck’s Hopelessness Scale was found to correlate well with other attitudinal measures of time perspective, but Yufit’s questionnaire presented less coherent associations with regard to time perspective. (19 refs.)