Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
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. Subscore(s): Goal Directed Behavior, Agency
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Self Management
Languages
English,
Spanish,
Chinese,
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
Setting
Classroom
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
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
