Afrikaans adaptation of the children’s hope scale: Validation and measurement invariance

Savahl, Shazly; Adams, Sabirah; Florence, Maria; Casas, Ferrán; Mpilo, Mulalo; Sinclair, Deborah Louise; Manuel, Donnay

doi:10.1080/23311908.2020.1853010

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“…In South Africa, Savahl and colleagues tested the suitability of Western developed measures of hedonic wellbeing (the Personal Wellbeing Index: Cummings & Lau, 2005) and eudaimonic wellbeing (i.e., the Children's Hope Scale: Snyder et al, 1997) with an adolescent sample. Confirmatory factor analysis found that both measures fit the data well (Savahl et al, 2017(Savahl et al, , 2020 and factorial invariance testing across higher and lower socioeconomic status groups found that the hedonic measure had scalar equivalence across groups (Savahl et al, 2017). Researchers working in Ghana (Wilson Fadiji et al, 2019) also found that Western developed measures of hedonia (the Satisfaction with Life Scale: Diener et al, 1985) and eudaimonia (the Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Steger et al, 2006) were a good fit to data gathered with their adult sample.…”

Section: A Social Evolutionary Conceptualization Of Eudaimonia and Hedoniamentioning

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Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone

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The study establishes the validity of a new measure of child and adolescent hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use and based on social evolutionary theory. The measure advances the fields of psychometrics and happiness studies by providing the first a-contextual assessment of both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing that is suitable for use with children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Personal and Social Assessment of Wellbeing contains a brief measure (8-items) of children’s global hedonia and eudaimonia, and domain specific measures (8-items each) of children’s wellbeing in relation to peers, teachers, and families. To develop the measure, we conducted a mixed methods investigation in rural Sierra Leone. We researched the ecological validity of the conceptual framework in a qualitative study of 40 participants (19 children and 21 adults) living in two communities. We developed the quantitative items through a two-phase pilot study of 200 children living in ten communities. We examined the psychometric properties of the measure in the pilot study data, and in a larger dataset generated with 2324 children living in 95 communities. The qualitative results showed that the participants experienced the framework components (e.g., social acceptance) in their daily lives, and that each component was intertwined with indigenous perspectives on child wellbeing. The quantitative results demonstrated that the measure had good dimensional, concurrent, and predictive validity.

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confidence: 87%

Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone

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“…In children, the hope theory has been introduced on the concept that “goal-directed hopeful thinking” is a requisite for development and survival and is related to experiencing positive emotions [ 39 - 41 ]. Hope within students (≤16 years of age) will also be assessed longitudinally by age-appropriate hope scales at week 0, week 8, week 10, month 6, and month 12.…”

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Success4life Youth Empowerment for Promoting Well-being and Boosting Mental Health: Protocol for an Experimental Study

Setia¹,

Furtner²,

Bendahmane³

et al. 2022

JMIR Res Protoc

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Background There is an increasingly alarming worsening of mental health among the youth. There remain significant unmet needs for developing innovative, evidence-based technology–enhanced, positive psychology interventions (PPIs) all-inclusive in targeting psychological distress and risk factors related to high-risk behavior commonly encountered in adolescents. Objective We aim to assess the effectiveness of a hybrid (incorporating both synchronous and asynchronous learning) and holistic (targeting social and emotional learning and tackling risk factors unique for this age group) PPI, “success4life youth empowerment,” in improving well-being in the youth. Methods Students’ well-being will be assessed by the 5-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index, and hope will be assessed by the 6-item Children’s Hope Scale at week 0, week 8, and week 10, month 6, and month 12. Any improvement in well-being and hope will be measured, estimating the difference in postintervention (week 8 and week 10) and preintervention (week 0) scores by determining the P value and effect size using appropriate statistical tests. Results This study includes 2 phases: pilot phase 1, delivered by the creators of the succcess4life youth empowerment modules and platform, and phase 2, which will consist of the estimation of scalability through the recruitment of trainers. We hope to start student recruitment by 2022 and aim to complete the results for phase 1 pilot testing by 2023. Conclusions We anticipate that a primarily web-based, 10-week holistic PPI can support improvement in the mental wellness of the youth and has the potential for effective scalability. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) PRR1-10.2196/38463

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“…(Snyder et al, 2007;Valle, et al, 2004). The Hope Scale has been broadly used with acceptable scale reliability in populations outside of the US, such as French adults (Gana et al, 2013), Serbian adolescents (Jovanović, 2013), Japanese undergraduates (Kato & Snyder, 2005), Chinese youths in both low and high income households (Lei, et al, 2019), and South African children (Savahl et al, 2020).…”

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Hope that Benefits Others: A Systematic Literature Review of Hope Theory and Prosocial Outcomes

Schornick

Ellis

Ray

et al. 2023

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

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This systematic literature review serves to illuminate the state of research that examines empirical evidence of hope and other-oriented variables (i.e. benefit individuals other than those who are being measured in the included studies). Thirteen articles were eligible for inclusion after the screening process and snowballing. Hope was positively related to variables such as social support seeking, altruism, community and social participation, and acting in favor of helping others. Data from the included studies revealed that individuals who score high on hope perform more behaviors that benefit others. These findings indicate that Hope Theory might provide a small glimpse into its definition of hope as a virtue that benefits others. This systematic review points to the dearth of research of hope as an individual difference that benefits others, but the potential of this line of inquiry.

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Afrikaans adaptation of the children’s hope scale: Validation and measurement invariance

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone

Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone

Success4life Youth Empowerment for Promoting Well-being and Boosting Mental Health: Protocol for an Experimental Study

Hope that Benefits Others: A Systematic Literature Review of Hope Theory and Prosocial Outcomes

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