The Relationship Between Hope and Life Satisfaction Among Children in Low and Middle Socio-Economic Status Communities in Cape Town, South Africa

Raats, Claudia; Adams, Sabirah; Savahl, Shazly; Isaacs, Serena Ann; Tiliouine, Habib

doi:10.1007/s12187-018-9549-0

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“…The availability of reliable measures of dispositional hope has allowed for extensive research to documents the positive correlates and consequences of dispositional hope (or internal locus-of-hope). As its origins were in the field of positive psychology, early research showed positive associations between dispositional hope and well-being (Cheavens et al 2005;Snyder 1994) even among individuals in very challenging circumstances like survivors in post-disaster contexts (Zhou et al 2019), victims of bullying (You et al 2008), and at-risk low-income youth (Adelabu 2008;Raats et al 2019). Research also documented positive effects of disposition hope on reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression (Arnau et al 2007;Visser et al 2013), nonsuicidal self-injury (Jiang et al 2018;Jiang et al 2020), and other forms of psychological distress (Berendes et al 2010).…”

Section: Positive Correlates Of Internal and External Locus-of-hopementioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring hope during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines: development and validation of the state locus-of-Hope scale short form in Filipino

Bernardo

Mendoza

2020

Curr Psychol

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Various adaptations of the Dispositional Hope Scale have been validated and used for specific research and applied purposes. The Locus-of-Hope Scale was developed as a cultural adaptation that measures internal and external aspects of agency related to goalpursuit that are typical in collectivist cultures. The scale has been used to account for variations in well-being-related factors in collectivist societies but still assumes that hope-related thoughts are dispositional. A State Locus-of-Hope Scale was developed to assess hope-related thinking concerning ongoing events and experience during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines in March 2020. The 16-item scale in Filipino was adapted from a short version of Locus-of-Hope Scale. Using data from 3128 respondents, confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit between the four-factor model (compared to one-factor and twofactor models), supporting the scale's structural validity. There was also good evidence for the subscales' convergent and discriminant validity. Preliminary evidence for construct criterion validity was demonstrated by examining associations with well-being and anxiety. The results indicate the viability of the State Locus-of-Hope scale for assessing temporal hope-related thoughts that can inform efforts to understand how individuals engage in goal-related processes and maintain well-being in specific personal and social situations.

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Section: Positive Correlates Of Internal and External Locus-of-hopementioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring hope during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines: development and validation of the state locus-of-Hope scale short form in Filipino

Bernardo

Mendoza

2020

Curr Psychol

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“…A growing body of research has provided evidence for hope as a psychological strength, particularly for children and adolescents confronted with adverse conditions (Valle et al, 2006;Savahl et al, 2016). Empirical research oeuvres has established that hope is associated with subjective well-being, life satisfaction and overall quality of life among children and adolescents (e.g., Gilman et al, 2006;Sawyer et al, 2007;Marques et al, 2011;Merkaš and Brajša-Žganec, 2011;Martins et al, 2018;Raats et al, 2018). Within the social sciences, hope is conceptualized as a cognitive-motivational construct focusing on goal-directed behavior, the "future self, " and is encompassed in a typology of concepts, inclusive of coping, faith, resilience, and empowerment (Jevne, 1993).…”

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“…For example, Lei et al (2019) and Savahl et al (2016) tested the measurement invariance of the CHS across socioeconomic status groups, while Haroz et al (2017) conducted group comparisons on samples of children in Burundi, Indonesia, and Nepal. Another recent trend in research is the relation of children's hope with other psychological constructs such as quality of life (Martins et al, 2018), life satisfaction (Merkaš and Brajša-Žganec, 2011;Raats et al, 2018), and subjective well-being (Kaye-Tzadok et al, 2018). However, no studies have investigated hope using national representative or population-based samples of children, and standardized scores on the CHS have not been proposed.…”

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Children’s Hope in South Africa: A Population-Based Study

Savahl

2020

Front. Psychol.

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A growing body of research has provided evidence for the cognitive motivational construct of hope as a psychological strength, particularly for children in adverse social circumstances. In children, hope is defined as a set of cognitions focused on children's agency to contemplate workable goals, to identify pathways to achieve those goals and the intrinsic beliefs about their capacity to activate sustained movement toward those goals. Using data from the third wave of the Children's Worlds International Survey on Children's Well-Being, the study aimed to explore children's hope amongst a random population-based sample of children in South Africa. The study further aimed to explore children's level of hope across the nine provincial regions of South Africa. Data were collected using Snyder et al.'s (1997) Children's Hope Scale (CHS). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to analyze the data, with multi-group CFA used to analyze the data across provincial regions. The study found an appropriate fit structure for the CHS using the overall pooled sample. The mean score on the CHS for the national sample was of 4.781 (SD = 1.082). Measurement invariance demonstrated the tenability of scalar invariance, which indicates comparability across correlations, regressions and mean scores. Mean scores ranged from 4.511 (SD = 1.163) for the Northern Cape to 4.982. (SD = 0.974) for the Western Cape. Five provinces (Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu Natal) scored below the national mean, while four provinces (North West, Western Cape, Limpopo, and Gauteng) scored above.

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“…More directly on point for this study, hope has also been linked to dimensions of child wellbeing. In Ghana, hope has been qualitatively and quantitatively (for females) linked to life satisfaction (Wilson, 2015), with similar findings from South Africa, particularly among low SES adolescents (Raats, 2015). Hope has also been shown to alleviate the adverse effects of traumatic experiences among African refugees in Australia (Tobin, 2014).…”

Section: Hope and Child Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 83%

Comparing reunified and residential care facility children's wellbeing in Ghana: The role of hope

James

Roby

2019

Children and Youth Services Review

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The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) stipulates children are entitled to "a family en-vironment…of happiness, love and understanding". Recent work on deinstitutionalization of children from residential care has found important child wellbeing differences, particularly around hope. Using data from Ghana-a country that has initiated reintegration of children from residential care facilities, therefore providing a natural opportunity for comparative research-we used hope, whether the child has been reunified with family/caregivers or remained in the care facility, and a statistical interaction of the two, along with controls, to predict the Child Status Index, an internationally-established measure of child wellbeing. We found hope was associated with greater wellbeing for both groups; the influence of hope, however, was stronger among reunified children. We briefly articulate mechanisms explaining why this may be and suggest that psychological wellbeing, particularly hope, may function as a moderator to help provide children with an important means of negotiating their environments.

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The Relationship Between Hope and Life Satisfaction Among Children in Low and Middle Socio-Economic Status Communities in Cape Town, South Africa

Cited by 21 publications

References 45 publications

Measuring hope during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines: development and validation of the state locus-of-Hope scale short form in Filipino

Measuring hope during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines: development and validation of the state locus-of-Hope scale short form in Filipino

Children’s Hope in South Africa: A Population-Based Study

Comparing reunified and residential care facility children's wellbeing in Ghana: The role of hope

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