Understanding Dispositional Hope in General and Clinical Populations

Espinoza, Macarena; Molinari, Guadalupe; Etchemendy, Ernestina; Herrero, Rocío; Botella, Cristina; Rivera, Rosa María Baños

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“…We investigated the relationship between hope, forgiveness, and depression in a sample of clinical outpatients. Although hope was negatively related to depression, for both clinical and general population [ 16 – 19 ], the clinical group scored lower in hope and higher in depression [ 19 , 43 ]. It is consistent with the scholars’ conclusion that hope is a predictive variable, particularly in mental health patients [ 44 ].…”

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The Relationship between Basic Hope and Depression: Forgiveness as a Mediator

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2020

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Although hope and forgiveness have been both negatively correlated with depression, actual relationships between all three variables have never been investigated. The aim of the study was to examine a theoretical model in which forgiveness mediates the relationship between basic hope and depressive symptoms. The sample was composed of 77 psychotherapy outpatients. Polish adaptations of the Basic Hope Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Heartland Forgiveness Scale were used. Negative and positive aspects of dispositional forgiveness of self, others, and situations beyond anyone's control were applied. Results indicated that the general level of forgiveness, as well as overcoming unforgiveness, fully mediated the relationship between basic hope and depression symptoms, while positive dimension of forgiveness partially mediated the links between the variables. The findings demonstrate that the tendency to forgive might be a mechanism via which basic hope reduces odds of depression.

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“…Likewise, taking other common views of hope into account (e.g. hope for success or dispositional hope), the inverse relationship with depressive symptoms has been confirmed in various contexts [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. However, psychological mechanism linking hope and depression is not clear.…”

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The Relationship between Basic Hope and Depression: Forgiveness as a Mediator

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2020

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“…It was used the Spanish version of the DHS ( Espinoza et al, 2016 ). This instrument evaluates dispositional hope.…”

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Implementation of a Positive Technology Application in Patients With Eating Disorders: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial

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Background: Positive psychological interventions (PPIs) have been suggested to produce benefits in patients with eating disorders (ED) by improving well-being, which might act as a buffer of the harmful effects caused by the disorder. Best Possible Self (BPS) is a PPI which consists of writing and envisioning a future where everything has turned out in the best possible way. In this regard, positive technology (PT) can be of considerable benefit as it allows to implement specific PPIs that have already shown efficacy.Objective: This study tested the preliminary efficacy of the BPS exercise implemented through a PT application and carried out for 1 month, in improving positive functioning measures, compared to a control condition, in patients with ED. Follow-up effects were also explored at 1 and 3 months later.Methods: This is a pilot randomized controlled trial, with two experimental conditions. Participants were 54 outpatients, who were receiving ongoing specialized treatment in ED services. 29 participants were randomly allocated to the BPS intervention and 25 to the control exercise. The sample was composed mostly by females and the mean age was 27 years. In the intervention group, participants had to write about their BPS. In the control group participants had to write about their daily activities. The exercise was conducted through the Book of Life, which is a PT application that allows users to add multimedia materials to the written content. Measures of future expectations, affect, dispositional optimism, hope and self-efficacy were assessed at different time frames.Results: Findings showed that all participants improved over time and there were no statistically significant differences between conditions on the specific measures. These effects were not influenced by prior levels of ED severity. Within-group effect sizes indicate a greater benefit for the participants in the BPS condition, compared to the control condition, on nearly all the measures.Conclusion: Results indicated that PT produced modest improvements in patients with EDs that are receiving current treatment for ED. More empirical attention is needed to explore the potential benefits of PPIs as supporting tools in the prevention and treatment of EDs.Trial registration: clinicaltrails.gov Identifier: NCT03003910, retrospectively registered December 27, 2016.

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“…Although the connections between hope and both the characteristics of goals and the generation of pathways have been well explicated in theoretical writings and the research base linking hope to desired outcomes continues to flourish (e.g., Espinoza et al, 2017;Scioli et al, 2016), investigations of the specific goal-setting and goal-pursuit behaviors theorized to be associated with hope scores have been scarce since the original Hope Scale validation paper (Snyder et al, 1991). This is particularly true when one considers contributions to the literature that do not rely solely on self-report of goal properties.…”

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Hope, goals, and pathways: Further validating the hope scale with observer ratings

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Objective: For the past two decades, hope theory (Snyder, 1994) has been an important framework for conceptualizing goal pursuits. Surprisingly, however, there has been little effort to test the underlying suppositions of hope theory or to further validate the measurement of hope with the Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991). Method: In Study 1, participants (N = 162, Mage = 19, 61% female) completed the Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991) and nominated goals they would like to accomplish in the next few months. Goals were coded on several dimensions. In Study 2, participants (N = 118, Mage = 19, 59% female) completed the Hope Scale, measures of optimism and self-efficacy, and generated workable pathways (i.e., routes) for achieving standardized goals. Results: Hope scores predicted setting objectively important, prosocial, long-term, and challenging goals. Hope (but not optimism or self-efficacy) was associated with generating more pathways for standardized goals. Conclusions: The results of these studies generally support the tenets of hope theory and provide further validation evidence for the Hope Scale. As expected, people with higher hope were more likely than their lower-hope counterparts to engage in what has traditionally been considered successful goal-setting behavior. Hope is associated with important goal-relevant behaviors and efforts to increase hopeful thought may be important in helping individuals to move toward important life outcomes.

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Understanding Dispositional Hope in General and Clinical Populations

Cited by 15 publications

References 34 publications

The Relationship between Basic Hope and Depression: Forgiveness as a Mediator

The Relationship between Basic Hope and Depression: Forgiveness as a Mediator

Implementation of a Positive Technology Application in Patients With Eating Disorders: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial

Hope, goals, and pathways: Further validating the hope scale with observer ratings

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