Hope in Cognitive Psychotherapies: On Working With Client Strengths

Cheavens, Jennifer S.; Feldman, Daniel C.; Woodward, J.; Snyder, C. R.

doi:10.1891/088983906780639844

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“…Results from correlational (Study 1) and experimental (Study 2) studies converged to show that the broader sociostructural context should be taken into consideration when examining the relationship between hopeful thinking and life satisfaction among minority group members. In line with an extensive literature on life satisfaction (e.g., Branscombe et al., ; Cheavens et al., ; Vacek, Coyle, & Vera, ), the present research shows that life satisfaction was negatively associated with discrimination and positively linked with hopeful thinking.…”

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When Reality Bites: Hopeful Thinking Mediates the Discrimination–Life Satisfaction Relationship

Zhang

Cui

Iyer

et al. 2014

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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We examine the role of hopeful thinking in enhancing life satisfaction among a minority group facing pervasive group-based discrimination: country migrant workers' children in China. Positive psychology reasoning suggests that hopeful thinking can attenuate the negative impact of perceived discrimination on life satisfaction. This moderation model is compared to a mediation model, which predicts that reduced hopeful thinking explains the negative impact of perceived discrimination on life satisfaction. Study 1 showed that hopeful thinking did not moderate the relationship between discrimination and life satisfaction.Rather, the negative impact of discrimination on life satisfaction was mediated through diminished hopeful thinking. Study 2 manipulated perceived discrimination and replicated Study 1 findings. The results reveal that hopeful thinking can indeed have positive consequences, but that hopeful thinking is also constrained by perceiving discrimination. This suggests that there are limits to the extent to which hopeful thinking can be developed when facing group-based discrimination.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

When Reality Bites: Hopeful Thinking Mediates the Discrimination–Life Satisfaction Relationship

Zhang

Cui

Iyer

et al. 2014

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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“…Finally, the application of hope theory to the treatment of PTSD may be important given that patients suffering from traumatic stress often report a profound sense of hopelessness when they enter treatment (e.g., Glass, Flory, Hankin, Kloos, & Turecki, 2009). Other studies that have examined hope in the context of psychotherapy have found that levels of hope are positively associated with treatment gains (Cheavens, Feldman, Woodward, & Snyder, 2006). Although it is conceivable that hope may be one nontargeted change mechanism in manualized cognitivebehavioral treatments of PTSD symptoms and associated outcomes (such as depression), it remains unclear if this is actually the case and it remains an open empirical question.…”

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Acute Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress and Dissociative Experiences Among Female Israeli Civilians Exposed to War: The Roles of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Sources of Resilience

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“…Another psychosocial process in Phase 2, embracing possibilities of a changed future, reflects the importance of assisting clients in imagining how life could be different. Cheavens, Feldman, Woodward, and Snyder (2006) maintained that imagining is an integral aspect of hope in that hope requires that an individual can create an image of where he or she would like to be in life and possible routes linking the present with the future. Sowards et al (2006) found that the ability to “imagine life without drugs” predicted treatment program success in women involved with drugs and with felony offenses.…”

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confidence: 99%