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- Title
Measurement of Hope in a Community-Based Older Population.
- Authors
Farran, Carol J.; Salloway, Jeffrey C.; Clark, David C.
- Abstract
Hope is a concept that has been caught between the reality of both the clinical and the research worlds. Clinical practitioners and lay persons have long known that hope is a necessary ingredient for well-being, and even for sustaining life itself. Researchers, on the other hand, have been reluctant to test hope as a construct because it is "soft" and difficult to measure. What is needed is a blend of our clinical experiences and our empirical knowledge about hope, so that our clinical knowledge about this concept is founded on a firm research base. In this article, four central attributes of hope are examined. This is followed by a discussion of how two hope scales measured these attributes in a community-based sample of older adults. From these empirical results and qualitative observations, additional issues of hope that instruments should seek to measure are identified.
- Subjects
HOPE; OLDER people; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; ATTITUDE (Psychology); HEALTH
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1990, Vol 12, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019394599001200104