Adult Hope Scale (Dispositional Hope Scale).

AHS / DHS

What it measures

hope; agency (goal-directed energy); pathways (planning)

Length and format

12 items. 8-point Likert (definitely false to definitely true); 4 agency + 4 pathways + 4 fillers (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into 20+ languages incl. Spanish, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Persian

Normative data

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Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Snyder, C. R., Harris, C., Anderson, J. R., Holleran, S. A., Irving, L. M., Sigmon, S. T., et al. (1991). The will and the ways: Development and validation of an individual-differences measure of hope. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60(4), 570-585.