Differentiating hope from optimism by examining self-reported appraisals and linguistic content

Gasper, Karen; Spencer, Lauren; Middlewood, Brianna

doi:10.1080/17439760.2019.1590623

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“…Students need to be trained to contemplate their own capacity to carry objectives to completion, including the capacity to create courses to arrive at objectives and the inspiration to utilize those courses. Hopefocused intervention may also be incorporated into other forms of psychotherapy such as cognitive behaviour therapy, since hope has been shown as one of the protective factors against psychological issues [22]. Additionally, counsellors may consider integrating hope into their counseling sessions.…”

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“…Additionally, study on life satisfaction from the perspective of positive psychology and environmental psychology is warranted amidst COVID-19 [20] now more than before, as cultivating hope and optimism become more revelatory in measuring the quality of environment and satisfaction of life in times of the COVID-19 pandemic [21]. Hope and optimism act as cognitive factors in protecting and helping to reduce life stressors in students' lives [22], particularly life satisfaction [23]. Furthermore, ref.…”

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The Unique Role of Hope and Optimism in the Relationship between Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19 Pandemic

Wider

Taib

Khadri

et al. 2022

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COVID-19 in Malaysia has significantly affected the higher education system of the country and increased the level of distress among university students. Empirical evidence proposed that environment quality is associated with university students’ life satisfaction during COVID-19. It was found that hope and optimism are linked with greater life satisfaction in general. Although past literature has reported the effects of hope and optimism on life satisfaction, there are limited studies examining the underlying mechanism among Malaysian private university students. Therefore, the current study offers the preliminary understanding of the intervening role of hope and optimism on the relationship between environmental quality and life satisfaction among private university students in Malaysia. A total of 133 private university students in Malaysia were recruited through homogenous convenience sampling. Partial least square structure equation modeling (SmartPLS) was used to analyze the mediation models. The results revealed that only hope mediated the relationship between environmental quality and life satisfaction, but not optimism. Hence, it is proposed that mental health providers should focus on providing hope-related interventions to university students in confronting COVID-19 challenges and ultimately improving life satisfaction.

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The Unique Role of Hope and Optimism in the Relationship between Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19 Pandemic

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Taib

Khadri

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“…There are other conceptualizations of hope in the literature (e.g., Herth, 1991), and the associations between hope and life outcomes may vary depending on the model of hope used. Research is needed to clarify the importance of different aspects of hope, including its varied sources (e.g., internal versus external) and its different manifestations (e.g., active versus passive; see also Gasper, Spencer, & Middlewood, 2019).…”

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Hope and optimism as predictors of academic performance and subjective well-being in college students

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Shanahan

Fischer

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Learning and Individual Differences

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“…Whereas hope entails the belief in the possibility (although not the likelihood) of a (highly) desired outcome, optimism reflects a higher confidence in terms of the subjective probability of realization assigned to a positive future state of affairs (Downie 1963;Bruininks and Malle 2005). Hope is distinct from optimism in that it is related to more uncertainty, lower probability, but higher personal importance and commitment as recently demonstrated by Gasper et al (2020). This means, that the general factor of the Bifactor-ESEM (which predominantly represents the items of the PHS and to a lesser extent that of optimism) may correspond to the basic belief in that the realization of one's own wishes is possible (a necessary but not sufficient condition for optimism).…”

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Distinguishing Perceived Hope and Dispositional Optimism: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Findings beyond Future Expectancies and Cognition

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Guse

Maree

2020

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At first glance, hope and optimism appear to be two almost identical concepts. The predominant cognitive theories maintain that both are based on positive future expectancies regarding goal attainment. However, other approaches recommend distinguishing between hope and future expectancies and sustain that the differences between hope and optimism are of a more substantial nature. The present study investigates the distinction between a new short instrument to measure hope as perceived by the general public, and dispositional optimism as measured by the revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) in a South African sample. After comparing both instruments using confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modelling in Mplus, a number of encouraging results emanated from the data. First, the Perceived Hope Scale (PHS) is a unitary and coherent measure of perceived hope. Second, perceived hope, as measured by the PHS, and optimism and pessimism as measured by the LOT-R, are psychometrically distinguished latent dimensions, optimally specified by their indicator variables. Furthermore, perceived hope represents a fundamental construct in the prediction of health outcomes and well-being and is an important antecedent to optimism and dispositional hope. Perceived hope is thus an important additional facet to consider in investigating well-being.

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Differentiating hope from optimism by examining self-reported appraisals and linguistic content

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

The Unique Role of Hope and Optimism in the Relationship between Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19 Pandemic

The Unique Role of Hope and Optimism in the Relationship between Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19 Pandemic

Hope and optimism as predictors of academic performance and subjective well-being in college students

Distinguishing Perceived Hope and Dispositional Optimism: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Findings beyond Future Expectancies and Cognition

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