The Role of Hope in Academic and Work Environments: An Integrative Literature Review

Abstract

The aim of this review was to present the most recent evidence on the interaction of hope with academic and work variables, since hope is increasingly recognized as an important psychological resource for academic achievement, career development and job performance. This paper included peer-reviewed research papers of the past five years, which were identified through searching Healink, Scopus and Google Scholar databases. We applied several combinations of relevant search terms (e.g. hope, academics, university, work, students and employees). Only English language studies were selected. Twenty-three research papers matched the inclusion criteria. Overall, the review found that hope plays a predictive role in academic and job performance, while hope correlates positively with several variables related to task accomplishment and well-being. The practical value of the findings in academics and the workplace is discussed and further recommendations are provided based on the review.

Effects of Metacognition on Performance in Mathematics and Language- Multiple Mediation of Hope and General Self-Efficacy

“…High hope was found to predict school performance, confirming other studies Stephanou, 2012; see also Feldman & Kubota, 2015;Marques et al, 2017;Yotsidi et al, 2018) as well as it proved predictor of metacognition. Furthermore, the present results, supporting previous research studies (e.g., Bryant & Cvengros, 2004;Ben-Naim, Laslo-Roth, Einav, Biran, & Margalit, 2017;Dixton et al, 2016;Peterson, Gerhardt, & Rode, 2006;Tennen, Affleck, & Tennen, 2002), suggest that, while the influence of self-efficacy and hope are agentically mediated through one another, they operating as distinct constructs.…”

“…Hopeful children, in particular, report better interpersonal relationships and school success regarding attendance, course selection, grade point average, graduation rates, and college going rates (Pedrotti et al, 2008;Stephanou, 2011; see also Marques, Lopez, Fontaine, Coimbra, & Mitchell, 2015). Yotsidi, Pagoulatou, Kyriazos and Stalikas (2018), in a review of twenty-three papers, reported that the dispositional hope was a powerful predictor of both academic hope and academic self-efficacy, and that hope indirectly predicted grade point average (GPAs). In the longitudinal study by Gallagher, Marques and Lopez (2017), hope was found to be a formulator factor of academic achievement across all the four years of studies as well as hope uniquely and directly influenced the number of enrolled semesters.…”

“Add Flow to the Fire”: Flow and Hope as a Shield against Burnout of Fire Service Workers

“…Flow represents a peak experience that gives the individuals the ability to focus, act energetically and direct all their resources towards their goals Csikszentmihalyi (1975Csikszentmihalyi ( /2000. Similarly, hope helps people to channel their motivations to the best alternative pathways and to become more decisive and effective (Snyder, 1994;Yotsidi et al, 2018). As such, it was considered that by understanding the role of flow and hope as potential buffers against the work challenges, this would Psychology provide novel perspectives on how firefighters might be better armored against the risks of their work as well as be more adequately equipped to deal with its everyday hazards.…”

“…According to Snyder's cognitive model (Snyder, 2002;Snyder et al, 1991), a hopeful individual is capable to create paths in order to achieve goals (pathways) and motivate oneself mentally to follow those pathways (agency). Findings from a recent integrative review (Yotsidi, Pagoulatou, Kyriazos, & Stalikas, 2018) showed that hope at the workplace was associated with employees' perceived motivations for pursuing their goals and their ability for task accomplishment, while it also played a predictive role in employees' self-efficacy, job satisfaction and overall well-being in different professions and work environments. For example, more hopeful employees had higher job performance and provided a wider array of solutions to difficulties encountered at the workplace (Peterson & Byron, 2008).…”

Are Resilient Occupational Therapists at Low Risk of Burnout? A Structural Equation Modeling Approach Combined with Latent Profile Analysis in a Greek Sample

“…Causal inference is a matter of study design (Kline, 2020), although this rigid view on causality with SEM can be somewhat problematic (Bollen & Pearl, 2013;Kline, 2020). Future research could explore if resilience of OTs is associated to a number of positive work-related constructs like flow (for Greece see Kyriazos, Stalikas, Prassa, Galanakis, Flora & Chatzilia, 2018), hope (for Greece see Yotsidi, Pagoulatou, Kyriazos, & Stalikas, 2018), flourishing (for Greece see Kyriazos, Stalikas, Prassa, Yotsidi, Galanakis, & Pezirkianidis, 2018) and life meaning (for Greece see . However, personal and family relationships may also affect OTs' resilience therefore, another future research possibility could be to explore the association of OTs' resilience to constructs like interpersonal anxiety (for Greece see Giotsa, Kyriazos, & Mitrogiorgou, 2018;Kyriazos & Giotsa, 2019) or family-related constructs like parental behaviors (for Greece see Kyriazos & Stalikas, 2019a) and positive parenting (for Greece see Kyriazos & Stalikas, 2019b).…”