Relationship between hope and depression in college students: A cross‐lagged regression analysis

Abstract

There was a significant bidirectional relationship between pathways thinking and depression. In addition, depression levels predicted levels of agency thinking, but levels of agency thinking did not predict depression levels. Therefore, interventions for depression should include strategies that assist individuals in the use of pathways thinking to establish specific routes via which to achieve their goals. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Developmental trajectory of hope among late‐adolescents: Population heterogeneity and the impact of gender and family socioeconomic status

“…Further, hope, representing positive expectations for the future, can be widely applied in behavioral and psychological contexts across cultures (Snyder, 2002); in other words, subjective feelings regarding the pursuit of goals and the ability to achieve goals are common to all humans (Ryan & Deci, 2000; Snyder, 2002). For instance, Snyder, Irving, and Anderson (1991) developed a hope scale (the State Hope Scale) to measure levels of hope among individuals based on Snyder's abovementioned definition, and several studies have validated the reliability and validity of this scale across different cultural groups (Chang & Banks, 2007; Roesch & Vaughn, 2006), including Chinese samples (Li, Wang, Mao, & Yin, 2018).…”

Hope and attitudes related to suicidal behavior among nursing students

“…The literature also demonstrated a strong association between mental illness and suicide risk (Gomes et al, 2019) and suicide attempts (Sun & Zhang, 2018). Some psychiatric diagnoses, such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (Geffken et al, 2006) and depression (Li et al, 2018) have already been identified as associated factors with less hope, while high levels of hope are associated with a reduction of anxiety and depressive symptoms (Kelberer et al, 2018).…”

Goal setting and attaining: Neural correlates of positive coping style and hope

“…Additionally, the PCC is regarded as an important brain region for self‐referential processing and provides self‐knowledge for goal‐related thoughts (Brewer et al., 2013), which may be helpful for planning to achieve goals (pathway thinking). Additionally, recent studies have proposed that the PCC shows abnormal function in many mental health and neurological disorders, such as depression, autism spectrum disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Greicius et al., 2009; Leech & Sharp, 2014), which have been shown to be negatively correlated with hope (Li et al., 2018; Shiri et al., 2014). Moreover, a recent RSFC study proposed that increased FC of the PCC with one region of vmFL (e.g., OFC) was associated with depression (Cheng et al., 2018).…”

“…Hope focuses on individual goal-related thoughts and is usually regarded as a general disposition toward engaging in conscious efforts to obtain goals (Snyder, 1995;Snyder et al, 1991), including pathway thinking (planning to meet goals) and agency thinking (goal-directed determination) (Snyder, 1995). Convergent evidence has indicated associations among hope and a number of positive outcomes, such as high levels of self-esteem (Du et al, 2015), greater life satisfaction (Pallini et al, 2018), reduced anxiety (Muyan et al, 2015), and decreased depressive symptoms (Li et al, 2018). Thus, given its various potential benefits, it is necessary to explore influencing factors that may contribute to the development of hope.Evidence from several previous studies has indicated that hope can be formed by individual factors (i.e., optimism, self-concept, and coping style) (Jahangiri-Zadeh…”