Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: Construct Validation of the Children's Hope Scale

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Issue Date
2014-05-25Author
Shadlow, Joanna O.
Boles, Richard E.
Roberts, Michael C.
Winston, Lauren
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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Child reports of hope continue to be utilized as predictors of positive adjustment; however, the utilization of the hope construct has not been assessed within the culturally diverse Native American child group. The present study investigated the applicability of the Hope theory among 96 Native American children in the Midwest. Measures included the Children’s Hope Scale and a Hope Interview. Native American children in the current sample appear to conceptualize hope as a way to reach goals as did the children in the normative sample. Results from the factor analysis demonstrate that the factor structure found in the current study was similar to the factor structure found in the standardization sample. Because of the similar Hope theory conceptualization and factor structure, interventions focused on the positive psychology construct of hope may be applicable within a Native American child population.
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Shadlow, J. O., Boles, R. E., Roberts, M. C., & Winston, L. (2015). Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: Construct Validation of the Children’s Hope Scale. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(6), 1707–1714. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-014-9974-8
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