Asiye ARICI GÜRBÜZ, Seda BOZDUMAN ÇELEBİ, Nazmiye İNCE, Hülya BİNOKAY, Berhan AKDAĞ, Serkan GÜNEŞ, Lut TAMAM
Nöropsikiyatri Arşivi - 2026;63(1):302-307
The present study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Turkish versions of the Brief Hopelessness Scale with positive and negative valence, Brief-H-Pos and Brief-H-Neg, in adolescents who presented to child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinics. The study sample consisted of 248 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years who presented to child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinics in two urban centers: Adana and Istanbul. To assess concurrent validity, Pearson's correlation coefficients were calculated to examine the relationships among the Brief-H-Pos, Brief-H-Neg, Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores. Reliability was evaluated using Cronbach's alpha, the Spearman-Brown coefficient, and item-total correlations. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were conducted to determine the diagnostic utility of the Brief-H-Pos and Brief-H-Neg in identifying adolescents with suicidal ideation.
