On the dimensionality of the Dispositional Hope Scale

Danny Brouwer; Rob R. Meijer; Anke M. Weekers; Joost J. Baneke

doi:10.1037/1040-3590.20.3.310

On the dimensionality of the Dispositional Hope Scale

Danny Brouwer
, Rob R. Meijer^*
, Anke M. Weekers
, Joost J. Baneke

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Dispositional Hope Scale (DHS; C. R. Snyder et al., 1991) consists of two subsets of items measuring Agency and Pathways. ne authors used bifactor analysis to evaluate the dimensionality structure of the scale. Data from 676 persons (295 psychiatric patients, 112 delinquents, and 269 students) were analyzed. The authors conclude that although the Pathway items seem to explain some additional variance when the Hope scale variance is partionalized out, the DHS allows unidimensional measurement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	310-315
Number of pages	6
Journal	Psychological Assessment
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.20.3.310
Publication status	Published - Sept-2008

Keywords

positive psychology
Dispositional Hope Scale
bifactor analysis
personality assessment
DEPRESSION
BIFACTOR
WILL

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