title: Hopelessness in undergraduate students around the world: a review.
abstract: A search was made for all studies which administered the Beck Hopelessness Scale to undergraduate students. Sixty-one studies were found for the United States and 28 for other countries. The mean scores of American students on the Hopelessness Scale were significantly lower than those of students in other nations, and there was a small but significant trend for the hopeless scores of American students to have increased from 1978 to 2010.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205-9441, USA. lesterd@stockton.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D065026:Hope; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D014481:United States
keywords: College students; Hopelessness; Suicide