TY - JOUR
T1 - Hope and personal growth initiative: A comparison of positive, future-oriented constructs
T2 - A comparison of positive, future-oriented constructs
AU - Shorey, H. S.
AU - Little, T. D.
AU - Snyder, C. R.
AU - Kluck, B.
AU - Robitschek, Christine
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - As new measures are added to the increasingly crowded positive psychology field, they must be juxtaposed with existing instruments to assess their relative utility and guide applied psychology researchers and clinicians in choosing appropriate measures. One such new measure is the Personal Growth Initiative Scale (PGIS; Robitschek, 1998). Comparing the PGIS with Synder et al.'s (1991) Hope Scale in a college-student sample (N = 378) with latent variable analyses using LISREL-8 revealed that PGI and hope are distinct yet related constructs (zero order r = 0.65; latent r = 0.84). Both constructs related to a selected set of outcome measures (optimism, psychological distress and well-being) but only hope accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in predicting these outcomes when hope and PGI were entered simultaneously in the model.
AB - As new measures are added to the increasingly crowded positive psychology field, they must be juxtaposed with existing instruments to assess their relative utility and guide applied psychology researchers and clinicians in choosing appropriate measures. One such new measure is the Personal Growth Initiative Scale (PGIS; Robitschek, 1998). Comparing the PGIS with Synder et al.'s (1991) Hope Scale in a college-student sample (N = 378) with latent variable analyses using LISREL-8 revealed that PGI and hope are distinct yet related constructs (zero order r = 0.65; latent r = 0.84). Both constructs related to a selected set of outcome measures (optimism, psychological distress and well-being) but only hope accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in predicting these outcomes when hope and PGI were entered simultaneously in the model.
KW - Assessment
KW - Hope
KW - Measurement
KW - Personal growth initiative
KW - Positive psychology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34748926903&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2007.06.011
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2007.06.011
M3 - Article
VL - 43
SP - 1917
EP - 1926
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 7
ER -