Hope's relationship with resilience and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hope, resilience and subjective happiness among general population of Paraguay in the post COVID-19 pandemic

“…Resilience has also been identified as a key factor in promoting positive mental health outcomes as it enables people to bounce back from adversity and maintain a sense of well-being. Conversely, people with languishing mental health may struggle with resilience, leading to negative mental health outcomes (Afek et al, 2020; Senger, 2023). There is evidence that resilience is lower among people who develop a mental disorder, and that high levels of resilience can minimize the severity of the disorder or even prevent it (Edward, 2005; Gladstone et al, 2006).…”

“…Consequently, hope can be considered a protective factor for mental well-being (Satici et al, 2023), and evidence suggests that hope underpins the recovery process in mental illness and defines it as the beginning of recovery, along with personal and environmental factors that converge in healing (Acharya & Agius, 2017). Research has demonstrated that hope is positively associated with personal growth (Vuyk & Codas, 2022), occupational engagement and career development (Vuyk et al, 2020), subjective happiness (Sariҫam, 2015), well-being (Shenaar-Golan, 2017) and resilience (Senger, 2023). Resilience is the personal capacity to adapt to trauma, adversity, stressors and tragedies (Wells et al, 2012), and is considered a protective factor for psychological disorders (Satici et al, 2023).…”

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“…and can sustain them as they navigate their unique journeys toward healing and recovery. Hope is an influential factor in perseverance and is closely linked with resilience (Cohen, 2017; Ozturk et al, 2022; Senger et al, 2023). Prominent models of hope such as Charles Snyder’s Hope Theory and the Herth Hope Index concur that hope is multidimensional and involves at a minimum two factors: (a) a future focused sense of expectancy and (b) interconnection (Feldman et al, 2023).…”

A study of the impact of the new digital divide on the ICT competences of rural and urban secondary school teachers in China

“…While there are specific policies in China focusing on bridging the "first digital divide" and advancing fairness in education through information technology [ 17 ], the focus on the "new digital divide" is just beginning. In addition, existing studies on the new digital divide have focused on the current status of the digital divide [ 18 , 19 ], development tendencies [ 20 ], and influencing variables [ [21] , [22] , [23] ]. There are more descriptions of phenomena and problems of the "new digital divide" [ 24 ], yet there is still a dearth of comprehensive studies on its causes, impacts, and remedies.…”