Adult Hope Scale (Dispositional Hope Scale).
AHS / DHS
hope; agency (goal-directed energy); pathways (planning)
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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
- 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.
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