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Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Dispositional Hope Scale [22] assesses a global trait based hope score for individuals above 15 years old. The scale is in 4-point Likert-type scale ranging from Definitely False to Definitely True. There are twelve items in the scale distributed as follows: pathways subscale (4 items), agentic thinking subscale (4 items) and four negative statements as fillers that aren’t related to hope.
According to Snyder’s (1995, 2002) point of view, hope includes three components: (a) goals that have sufficient value to an individual and require a certain amount of effort to achieve, and (b) Pathways thinking, which refers to the reasonable Pathways that are designed by the individual to reach his or her goals. In addition, when there are obstacles blocking one of the Pathways the individual is able to create alternative Pathways to achieve the goals: (c) Agency thinking, a motivational factor related to hope, which refers to the individual’s perception of his or her own ability to utilise Pathways and strategies to achieve goals
Content
Grades
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Spanish
Chinese
Other
Other Language/s
French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
8 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Contact the APA: https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/contact
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Li, Z., Mao, X., He, Z., Zhang, B., &; Yin, X. (2018). Measure invariance of Snyder's Dispositional Hope Scale in American and Chinese college students. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 21(4), 263-270. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12332
Lee, C. S., & Park, J. Y. (2016). The effects of acculturative and family-related stress on the well-being of immigrant women in Korea: The mediating effect of hope. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 9(26), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i26/97281
Lee, C. S., Park, J. Y., Cliford, N., Naseli, D. N., Ndong, A. P., Juliet, E. S., & Besumbu, E. (2018). Influence of Human Rights Victimization on Happiness: Mediating Effect of Grit and Hope. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 120(6), 5765-5775. https://acadpubl.eu/hub/2018-120-6/5/407.pdf
Sünbül, Z. A., & Çekici, F. (2018). Hope as a unique agent of resilience in socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE), 7(4), 299–304. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v7i4.15354
Tomás, J. M., Gutiérrez, M., Georgieva, S., & Hernández, M. (2020). The effects of self‐efficacy, hope, and engagement on the academic achievement of secondary education in the Dominican Republic. Psychology in the Schools, 57(2), 191-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22321
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
Referencing
Norm-referenced
Psychometric References
Brouwer, D., Meijer, R. R., Weekers, A. M., & Baneke, J. J. (2008). On the dimensionality of the Dispositional Hope Scale. Psychological assessment, 20(3), 310. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/1040-3590.20.3.310
Creamer, M., O’Donnell, M. L., Carboon, I., Lewis, V., Densley, K., McFarlane, A., ... & Bryant, R. A. (2009). Evaluation of the Dispositional Hope Scale in injury survivors. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(4), 613-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2009.03.002
Gomez, R., McLaren, S., Sharp, M., Smith, C., Hearn, K., & Turner, L. (2015). Evaluation of the bifactor structure of the Dispositional Hope Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97(2), 191-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2014.938158
Roesch, S. C., & Vaughn, A. A. (2006). Evidence for the factorial validity of the dispositional hope scale: Cross-ethnic and cross-gender measurement equivalence. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 22(2), 78. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1027/1015-5759.22.2.78
Snyder, C. R., Harris, C., Anderson, J. R., Holleran, S. A., Irving, L. M., Sigmon, S. T., ... & Harney, P. (1991). The will and the ways: development and validation of an individual-differences measure of hope. Journal of personality and social psychology, 60(4), 570. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-3514.60.4.570
Item Type
Likert
