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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Hope Theory"”.
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Levels of resourcefulness and motivation as they relate to sales force success: An examination of correlates using the hope theory.
… and pencil and online, was conducted using the Hope Scale developed by C. R. Snyder and associates (1991). Hope is defined as a two-dimensional construct of goal-directed thinking: resourcefulness, thoughtful planning to overcome obstacles to goals, and motivation, cognition to sustain momentum …
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Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: A Factor Analytic Comparison
… study investigated the applicability of the Hope Theory (Snyder et al., 1991) among a Native American child population in the Midwest. Dependent variables included (a) the Hope Interview and (b) the Children's Hope Scale. By assessing these variables, this study addressed the following …
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Hope is never wasted: Hope as a tool to reduce food waste
… physical resources for humans. In this regard, hope plays a prominent role by helping people to focus on future goals and creating pathways to achieve them. Focusing on the positive emotion of hope, this thesis aims to design and investigate the effect of different types of messages in eliciting …
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Hope transcends: creating ladders to opportunity for at-risk students
… the previous research on the construct of hope to identify the factors and attributes that at-risk students who are academically and socially successful perceive contributed to their hope. This work was built up the Hope Theory by C.R. Snyder et.al (2002). Utilizing a purposive sample, …
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Examining Hope and Resilience among Mississippi Adolescents
<p>Hope theory involves the way in which individuals perceive their abilities in relation to three factors: 1) clearly defined goals, 2) the specific strategies necessary to obtain those goals (called “pathways”), and 3) the sustained motivation necessary to use those specific strategies (called …
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Burning Out: A Narrative Exploration of the Adaptive Challenge and Scaffolds Built Toward Sustenance Among Immigrant Rights Activists in San Diego County
… as appropriate to the data: adaptive leadership theory and hope theory. Four resonant themes emerged. First, participants describe burnout as a nonlinear, cumulative process that crosses thresholds of capacity and is frequently misrecognized or deferred. Burnout produced identity disruption …
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An investigation of hope in second-year male college students during academic recovery
… model of retention and Carl Snyder’s (2002) hope theory to explore the experience of men on academic probation during their second year of college. The study used an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design involving quantitative data from an administered survey, followed by student …
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Hope and academic performance in a higher education residence context
… sought to explore the relationship between trait hope, environmental hope, academic performance and demographics (language, gender, year of study & race) in university residence students in a South African Higher Education Residence setting. Using four scales including: (1) the Trait Hope Scale …
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The holistic evaluation of employee hope, well-being and engagement through change
… additional financial reward. Drawing upon hope theory as defined by C.R. Snyder, particular attention is given to the predictive nature of trait hope over other state-like constructs of psychological capital, including hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism. In literature, hope is …
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A strategy to curb ill-discipline of learners in selected public high schools at Masakhane circuit
… theoretical framework that guides this study is Hope Theory (HT), frequently considered in social and emotional learning as encouraging the development of self-awareness. The theory is seen universally as positive, a quality that teachers need to cultivate in themselves as human beings. Hope is …
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Food waste reduction strategies for sustainable food security in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… a theoretically-informed framework of the hope theory; using a mixed method approach with a sequential exploratory and descriptive design. Purposive sampling was used. Appreciative inquiry using key informant interviews and questionnaire survey, as well as preference snowball and random …
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FOSTERING HOPE: EFFECTS OF A HOPE INTERVENTION ON TASK PERSISTENCE AND PERFORMANCE
While hope has been consistently established as a significant predictor of academic outcomes, little work has been done to address whether it is possible to increase state hope levels to improve academic behaviour and performance. In this study, we tested a short and novel hope intervention …
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The Impact of Positive Human Interest Stories on Raising Hope Through Social Media in Kentucky's Promise Zone Counties
… Promise Zone counties and C. R. Snyder’s (1991) Hope Scale instrument, this study looks at how the use of social media affects hope, while considering five decades of news media negative stereotypical views of those who live in the mountains of Appalachia (Bowler, 1985). This study examines data …
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Towards ‘Skill’ and ‘Will’: Using Hope-infused Strategy Instruction in the English Writing Classroom at Chinese Universities
… which are conceptualised as ‘strategy’ and ‘hope’, respectively. The latter, based on Snyder’s Hope Theory from Positive Psychology, is a cognitive trilogy comprising goals, agency thinking, and pathways thinking, which are hypothetically underpinned by writing strategies. The project aims to …