Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 years
ABSTRACTObjective The Children’s Hope Scale (CHS) is a widely used six-item instrument for assessing hope in children. The CHS is thought to contain two dimensions—agency thinking (ability to initiate and sustain action towards goals) and pathways thinking (capacity to find a means to carry out goal...
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| description | ABSTRACTObjective The Children’s Hope Scale (CHS) is a widely used six-item instrument for assessing hope in children. The CHS is thought to contain two dimensions—agency thinking (ability to initiate and sustain action towards goals) and pathways thinking (capacity to find a means to carry out goals)—but there is debate whether the scale is unidimensional rather than bidimensional and the factor structure has yet to be established in Australian children.Method N = 171,052 Australian students (8–18 years of age; 0.3% gender diverse, 48.4% male and 51.3% females) completed the CHS as part of a larger survey examining resilience. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted, and internal consistency was assessed with Cronbach’s alpha.Results Bifactor modelling indicated a single-factor structure for the CHS, and the scale demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = .86) and was sensitive to age and gender differences.Conclusions Our results suggest that the CHS is unidimensional and supports its use for the measurement of hope in children and adolescents aged 8–18 years of age. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c37be94c7414add8baa032b4945b2a92024-03-12T01:17:14ZengTaylor & Francis GroupAustralian Journal of Psychology0004-95301742-95362024-12-0176110.1080/00049530.2024.2322724Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 yearsSophie Richter0Jillian Dorrian1Peter Wicking2Andrew Wicking3Kurt Lushington4Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, AustraliaJustice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, AustraliaResilient Youth Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaResilient Youth Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJustice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, AustraliaABSTRACTObjective The Children’s Hope Scale (CHS) is a widely used six-item instrument for assessing hope in children. The CHS is thought to contain two dimensions—agency thinking (ability to initiate and sustain action towards goals) and pathways thinking (capacity to find a means to carry out goals)—but there is debate whether the scale is unidimensional rather than bidimensional and the factor structure has yet to be established in Australian children.Method N = 171,052 Australian students (8–18 years of age; 0.3% gender diverse, 48.4% male and 51.3% females) completed the CHS as part of a larger survey examining resilience. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted, and internal consistency was assessed with Cronbach’s alpha.Results Bifactor modelling indicated a single-factor structure for the CHS, and the scale demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = .86) and was sensitive to age and gender differences.Conclusions Our results suggest that the CHS is unidimensional and supports its use for the measurement of hope in children and adolescents aged 8–18 years of age.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00049530.2024.2322724ChildrenChildren’s Hope Scalefactor analysishope |
| spellingShingle | Sophie Richter Jillian Dorrian Peter Wicking Andrew Wicking Kurt Lushington Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 years Australian Journal of Psychology Children Children’s Hope Scale factor analysis hope |
| title | Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 years |
| title_full | Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 years |
| title_fullStr | Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 years |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 years |
| title_short | Children’s Hope Scale: factor structure and norms for Australian children aged 8–18 years |
| title_sort | children s hope scale factor structure and norms for australian children aged 8 18 years |
| topic | Children Children’s Hope Scale factor analysis hope |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00049530.2024.2322724 |
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