Adolescent Hopefulness in Tanzania

This paper presents the first empirical results of a long-term project exploring the use of hope as a concept summarising people's experience of the social, economic and cultural world they inhabit. The work has its roots in attempts to understand socio-economic aspects of HIV/AIDS epidemiology through recourse to the term 'structural drivers'. In this paper, we recognise the distinguished contribution made by that body of work but adopt a different theoretical approach, one based on the idea of emergent social properties. This is an idea derived from the Durkheim's notion of a 'social current'. One such emergent property is hope and its potential use and applicability as an epidemiological variable is described. The variable is measured using the Snyder scale developed by the late Rick Snyder for quite other purposes in the USA. We use data from the long-standing UK MRC/UVRI General Cohort Study in Uganda together with a smaller study of some fishing communities. The results show that the Snyder scale (1) does measure a real variable, (2) does mean something to Ugandan rural populations and (3) can be used to explore some known risk factors for HIV acquisition.

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“…This observation has been noted also by a recent study, also using the Snyder scale among youth in Tanzania (Nalkur, 2009). …”

Section: Ethnographic Datasupporting

confidence: 52%

Hope: A new approach to understanding structural factors in HIV acquisition

Barnett

Seeley

Levin

et al. 2015

Global Public Health

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“…The keywords (terms) used were adolescents, middle school students, high school students, college students, hope, and hopefulness. Both hope and hopefulness are used interchangeably in the literature (Nalkur, 2009), and in concept analyses (Benzein & Saveman, 1998; Sachse, 2007; Stephenson, 1991); studies of both were included in these meta-analyses.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent theoretical views have suggested that adolescent hope focuses on a possibility, a reflection of life’s opportunities, and a future orientation, all of which are embedded in a community where hope can thrive and operate (Nalkur, 2009; te Riele, 2010). According to Nalkur, descriptions of adolescent hope, also referred to as hopefulness, may exist across all cultural contexts.…”

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Meta-Analyses of Predictors of Hope in Adolescents

Yarcheski

Mahon

2014

West J Nurs Res

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The purposes of this study were to identify predictors of hope in the literature reviewed, to use meta-analysis to determine the mean effect size (ES) across studies between each predictor and hope, and to examine four moderators on each predictor-hope relationship. Using preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines for the literature reviewed, 77 published studies or doctoral dissertations completed between 1990 and 2012 met the inclusion criteria. Eleven predictors of hope were identified and each predictor in relation to hope was subjected to meta-analysis. Five predictors (positive affect, life satisfaction, optimism, self-esteem, and social support) of hope had large mean ESs, 1 predictor (depression) had a medium ES, 4 predictors (negative affect, stress, academic achievement, and violence) had small ESs, and 1 predictor (gender) had a trivial ES. Findings are interpreted for the 11 predictors in relation to hope. Limitations and conclusions are addressed; future studies are recommended.

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“…In contrast, some literature casts a derogatory tone over passive hope that suggests it is equivalent to a "false" hope (Jacoby 2003, Osika 2019). Passive hope is often associated with periods of inactivity (Bright 2011, Govier 2011, Musschenga 2019, a lack of agency (Andersson 2016, Lybbert and Wydick 2018, https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss2/art14/ Musschenga 2019) or motivation (Miceli and Castelfranchi 2010), fantasizing without a plan to realize the imagined outcome (Miceli and Castelfranchi 2010), "a temporal structure of unreflective being-in-the-world" (de Graaf 2016:604), and a reliance on others, whether individuals (Nalkur 2009), groups (Macy andJohnstone 2012, Yunkaporta 2019), or some form of spiritual intervention (Jacoby 2003). Passive hope is also described as patiently waiting for things to become better (Lybbert and Wydick 2018) or harm-avoidance (Fu et al 2018).…”

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Adaptive hope: a process for social environmental change

Bender¹,

Rawluk²

2023

E&S

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Future threats and ever-present uncertainty have become part of our social ecological reality. We need hope to respond to social ecological change, and our sense of hope must adapt to the changes we experience. Hope is known to contribute to resilience, be important for creating social change, and to instill a belief that better futures are possible. However, there are multiple expressions of hope that could be consolidated for navigating complex social ecological change. We propose adaptive hope as an integrative conceptualization for navigating change and connection in complex social ecological change, through both the short and long term, which can be expressed in multiple ways. We explore the features of adaptive hope using one of the author's recent experiences of attending the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) as an illustrative example. Finally, we explore the implications and future directions for research and practice that converse with adaptive hope.

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Adolescent Hopefulness in Tanzania

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Hope: A new approach to understanding structural factors in HIV acquisition

Hope: A new approach to understanding structural factors in HIV acquisition

Meta-Analyses of Predictors of Hope in Adolescents

Adaptive hope: a process for social environmental change

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