The Hopelessness Depression Symptom Questionnaire

Author(s): Joiner, T. E.

Journal/Book: Cognitive Ther Res. 1997; 21: 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013. Plenum Publ Corp. 359-384.

Abstract: Evaluated the Hopelessness Depression Symptom Questionnaire (HDSQ; Metalsky & Joiner 1991). The HDSQ is a 32-item self-report measure of eight symptoms posited by L. Abramson, G. Metalsky, and L. Alloy (1989) to comprise a specific subtype of depression-hopelessness depression. Factor analytic results from 435 subjects suggested that: (a) Each of the eight subscales of the HDSQ reflects a distinct symptom of hopelessness depression; and (b) The eight subscales, taken together, reflect one higher-order construct-Hopelessness Depression Symptoms. Diathesis-stress results from a subset of 174 subjects indicated that the attributional diathesis x stress interaction predicted onset of hopelessness depression symptoms on the HDSQ but nor nonhopelessness depression symptoms. The HDSQ should allow for recision in tests of the hopelessness theory of depression.

Note: Article Metalsky GI, Lawrence Univ, Dept Psychol, POB 599, Appleton,WI 54912 USA

Keyword(s): attributional style; hopelessness; depressed symptoms; CAUSAL MEDIATION COMPONENTS; ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE; DIATHESIS-STRESS; NEGATIVE AFFECT; SELF-ESTEEM; MODEL; VULNERABILITY; PREDICTION; INVENTORY; DISORDERS

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