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The development and validation of the Children's Hope Scale
C R Snyder1, B Hoza, W E Pelham
1Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045-2462, USA.
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
|June 1, 1997
Summary
Children
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Child Development
- Well-being
Background:
- Children's goal-oriented thinking involves agency (initiating action) and pathways (planning routes).
- Hope is conceptualized as the integration of agency and pathways thinking towards goals.
- A validated measure for assessing children's hope is needed for research and clinical practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce and validate the Children's Hope Scale (CHS) for assessing dispositional hope in children.
- To examine the psychometric properties of the CHS in a pediatric population.
Main Methods:
- Development of a six-item dispositional self-report scale, the Children's Hope Scale (CHS).
- Validation of the CHS with children aged 8-16 years.
- Assessment of internal consistency, test-retest stability, convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity.
Main Results:
- The Children's Hope Scale demonstrated good internal consistency and stability over retesting.
- The scale showed evidence of convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity.
- The findings support the CHS as a reliable and valid measure of hope in children.
Conclusions:
- The Children's Hope Scale is a psychometrically sound instrument for measuring hope in children aged 8-16.
- The scale can be used to assess children's hope, contributing to research on child psychology and well-being.
- Future research should explore the scale's utility in diverse populations and its predictive validity.