Predictors and Correlates of Interest in Assisted Suicide in the Final Month of Life Among ALS Patients in Oregon and Washington

The measurement of pessimism: The Hopelessness Scale.

Aaron T. Beck, Arlene Weissman, David Lester et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 1974 · 5.5K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +16

Relationship between hopelessness and ultimate suicide: a replication with psychiatric outpatients

A T Beck, Gary Brown, Robert J. Berchick et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry · 1990 · 1.1K citations

Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Psychology +14

Depression, Hopelessness, and Desire for Hastened Death in Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer

William Breitbart · JAMA · 2000 · 1.1K citations

Medicine, Oncology, Psychiatry +13

Desire for death in the terminally ill

Harvey Max Chochinov, Kenneth G. Wilson, Murray W. Enns et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry · 1995 · 750 citations

Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology +9

Hopelessness, Depression, Suicidal Ideation, and Clinical Diagnosis of Depression

Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer, Judith S. Beck et al. · Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · 1993 · 587 citations

Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Psychology +15