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 |