Visions about future: a new scale assessing optimism, pessimism, and hope in adolescents

Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Sgaramella, Teresa Maria; Ferrari, Lea; Nota, Laura; Santilli, Sara; Soresi, Salvatore

doi:10.1007/s10775-016-9324-z

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“…Visions about future (VAF). The instrument consists of 20 items assessing a total score of positive orientation toward future and two subscales: youths' hope (e.g., ''Certainly in the future I'll be able to realize something interesting for me'') and optimism toward the future (e.g., ''I think I'm an optimist''; Ginevra et al, 2016). Participants responded to each item on a scale from 1 (not strong) to 5 (strongest).…”

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“…Therefore, Kenny, Blustein, Haase, Jackson, and Perry (2006) have emphasized that hopeful adolescents are characterized by higher motivation toward reaching goals, higher school achievement, and higher satisfaction for their educational plan. Hope is thus an important aspect to consider in relation with career adaptability and life satisfaction in young adolescents (Ginevra et al, 2016;Nota et al, 2012).…”

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Career Adaptability, Hope, Optimism, and Life Satisfaction in Italian and Swiss Adolescents

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Marcionetti

Rochat

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Journal of Career Development

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The consequences of economic crisis are different from one European context to the other. Based on life design (LD) approach, the present study focused on two variablescareer adaptability and a positive orientation toward future (hope and optimism)relevant to coping with the current work context and their role in affecting life satisfaction. A partial mediational model between career adaptability and life satisfaction, through a positive orientation toward future (hope and optimism), was tested across Italian and Swiss countries. Seven hundred twenty-six Italian and 533 Swiss young people between the ages of 12 and 16 years were involved. Results provided support for the model in the Italian group and a full mediation model for the Swiss one. The data suggest that the context may have an effect on how career adaptability has an impact on general life satisfaction. These results have important implications for practice and underscore the need to support adolescents in their LD process

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Career Adaptability, Hope, Optimism, and Life Satisfaction in Italian and Swiss Adolescents

Santilli

Marcionetti

Rochat

et al. 2016

Journal of Career Development

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102

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“…Much research [89][90][91], in fact, has shown the influence of parent in the construction of the school and professional projects of their children through a series of factors such as concern and support [92][93][94][95], expectations [96,97], interests and aspirations [98,99], and positive reinforcement [100][101][102]. For these reasons, they should be involved through parent-training actions that aim to guide them in the co-construction of their children's future [103].…”

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“Work and Surroundings”: A Training to Enhance Career Curiosity, Self-Efficacy, and the Perception of Work and Decent Work in Adolescents

2020

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The development of professional identity starts with childhood. In adolescence, individuals should have appropriate resources to make choices; high levels of self-efficacy and professional curiosity, as well as better representations of the concept of work and decent work, could support adolescents in their planning of the future. For this reason, we developed a training aimed at providing adolescents with resources of professional curiosity and self-efficacy, which would also increase their representation of the concepts of work and decent work. A longitudinal study compared a control group (n = 80) with an experimental group (n = 80). The second group participated in mainly qualitative career counseling activities and showed an improvement in the levels of professional curiosity and self-efficacy; moreover, after the training, the experimental group showed a better representation of work and decent work. Consequently, the training managed to improve the dimensions set out above. The results show that career counseling activities can help increase adolescent resources and increase their chances of finding a qualitatively good job.

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“…Visions about future (VAF; Ginevra et al, 2016) The scale consists of 19 items, assessing hope, optimism, and pessimism. Participants responded to each item on a scale from 1 (It describes me not at all) to 5 (It describes me very well).…”

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Development and validation of an instrument to assess future orientation and resilience in adolescence

Maggio

Ginevra

Nota

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Journal of Adolescence

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The study is aimed at providing the development and initial validation of the Design My Future (DMF), which may be administered in career counseling and research activities to assess adolescents' future orientation and resilience. Two studies with two independent samples of Italian adolescents were conducted to examine psychometric requisites of DMF. Specifically, in the first study, after developing items and examined the content validity, the factorial structure, reliability and discriminant validity of the DMF were tested. In the second study, the measurement invariance across gender, conducing a sequence of nested CFA models, was evaluated. Results showed good psychometric support for the instrument with Italian adolescents.

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Visions about future: a new scale assessing optimism, pessimism, and hope in adolescents

Cited by 53 publications

References 55 publications

Career Adaptability, Hope, Optimism, and Life Satisfaction in Italian and Swiss Adolescents

Career Adaptability, Hope, Optimism, and Life Satisfaction in Italian and Swiss Adolescents

“Work and Surroundings”: A Training to Enhance Career Curiosity, Self-Efficacy, and the Perception of Work and Decent Work in Adolescents

Development and validation of an instrument to assess future orientation and resilience in adolescence

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