About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | Hope; Despair; Global personal hopefulness |
| Description | A measure of hope and despair for adolescents and adults. |
| Example | I generally look forward to new activities and phases in my life |
| Link | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/73B853ECFFC6C2CA55FE8EE4077A5CD0/S0033291700035613a.pdf/construction_and_characteristics_of_an_instrument_to_measure_personal_hopefulness.pdf |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 20 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 13-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
| Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .80-.90 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 2-factor oblique |
| CFA | Not reported |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Significant difference in mean hope scores for drug users and non users (49.39 vs. 60.77) |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Nunn, K. P., Lewin, T. J., Walton, J. M., & Carr, V. J. (1996). The construction and characteristics of an instrument to measure personal hopefulness. Psychological Medicine, 26(3), 531-545. doi:10.1017/s0033291700035613 |