Hope and happiness: A comparison of some discrepancies

Stassen, Marjorie A.; Staats, Sara

doi:10.1007/bf00384217

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“…The standardized coefficient for health on happiness was .85, and the struc-ture coefficient was .91. Stassen and Staats (1988) found no relationship between happiness and health in American and Canadian students, ages 17 to 36, but the measure of health was not reported. Pettit, Kline, Gencoz, Gencoz, and Joiner (2001) used the Positive Affect Schedule to assess happiness.…”

Section: Health and Happinessmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…From a methodological perspective, one advantage of this study was that happiness and all of the health-related instruments were reliable and valid measures and that no single-item rating scales were used to assess the variables, as has been done in previous studies (Stassen & Staats, 1988;Stones & Kozma, 1980). Because this is the first study to have examined the relationship between happiness and health in early adolescents, the findings make a distinct contribution to the creation of new knowledge about the association between the two variables.…”

Section: Clinical Nursing Research / May 2005mentioning

confidence: 93%

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Happiness as Related to Gender and Health in Early Adolescents

Mahon¹,

Yarcheski

Yarcheski³

2005

Clin Nurs Res

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The purposes of this study were to examine gender differences in happiness; to examine the relationship between happiness and several health variables, such as perceived health status, clinical health, and wellness, in early adolescents; and to examine further these relationships for boys and girls separately. The final sample consisted of 151 early adolescent boys and girls who were in the seventh and eighth grades of an urban middle school. Students responded to instruments measuring happiness, perceived health status, clinical health, and wellness. Results indicated there were no gender differences in happiness between boys and girls. Statistically significant positive correlations were found between happiness and the health-related variables for the entire sample, with different patterns of relationships when boys and girls were analyzed separately. The application of findings to nursing is discussed.

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Section: Health and Happinessmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Clinical Nursing Research / May 2005mentioning

confidence: 93%

Happiness as Related to Gender and Health in Early Adolescents

Mahon¹,

Yarcheski

Yarcheski³

2005

Clin Nurs Res

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“…Past research studies have shown that hope was a significant predictor of psychological well-being, specifically of Life Satisfaction and Happiness (Alarcon, Bowling, & Khazon, 2013; Bailey, Eng, Frisch, & Snyder, 2007; Staats, Wallace, & Anderson, 2010; Stassen & Staats, 1988). Life satisfaction is one of the cognitive components of subjective well-being and according to Diener and his colleagues (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985), it is the result of comparing one’s life circumstances to one’s expectations, also predicting people’s future behavior (Pavot & Diener, 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptation, Further Elaboration, and Validation of a Scale to Measure Hope as Perceived by People: Discriminant Value and Predictive Utility Vis-à-Vis Dispositional Hope

2017

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Against the background of different psychological conceptualizations of hope, this article elaborates and validates a measure to assess hope as perceived by the general public adapting it from the hope and optimism subscale of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Spirituality, Religion and Personal Beliefs Questionnaire. The results presented here are part of a yearly Internet-based cross-sectional survey in Germany and Switzerland called Hope-Barometer, from which 4 samples of 3 different years with about 17,500 participants have been used. Following the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses as well as convergent validity, discriminant value, and predictive utility, our findings suggest that the six items of the resulting Perceived Hope Scale exhibits robust psychometric properties, and that perceived hope is distinct and broader than dispositional hope, in which it relates not only to cognitive but also to spiritual, religious, and altruistic dimensions.

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“…Studies performed on hope have shown hope and well-being to contain a positive relationship (Bailey & Snyder, 2007;Stassen & Staats, 1988). Optimism, a concept related to hope, positively affects psychological and physical health, social relations, and problem-coping (Carver & Scheier, 2014).…”

Section: Relationships and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keep Calm and Be Happy: A Mixed Method Study from Character Strengths to Well-being

2018

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Hope and happiness: A comparison of some discrepancies

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Happiness as Related to Gender and Health in Early Adolescents

Happiness as Related to Gender and Health in Early Adolescents

Adaptation, Further Elaboration, and Validation of a Scale to Measure Hope as Perceived by People: Discriminant Value and Predictive Utility Vis-à-Vis Dispositional Hope

Keep Calm and Be Happy: A Mixed Method Study from Character Strengths to Well-being

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