The Structure of State Hope: Testing Alternative Models Based on the Polish Version of the State Hope Scale
The Structure of State Hope: Testing Alternative Models Based on the Polish Version of the State Hope Scale
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Mielniczuk, Emilia
Laguna, Mariola
Zawadzka-Jabłonowska, Agnieszkz
Zięba, Mariusz
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2023-06-30
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Advances in Cognitive Psychology
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2
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19
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111-122
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1895-1171
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2023-06-30
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Hope, defined as a cognitive set of beliefs concerning goal-related activities and comprising agency thinking and pathways thinking, is considered both as a relatively stable disposition and
as a momentary state. To expand knowledge on state hope, we validated its measure by testing alternative factorial models. With two cross-sectional studies, we aimed to validate the factorial structure of the Polish version of the State Hope Scale (SHS-PL). Study 1 involved 242 Polish employees (158 women) aged 18–64 years, and Study 2 involved 953 Polish adults (704 women) aged 18 to 75 years. The results demonstrated that the bifactor model was the best representation of the structure of state hope. It simultaneously captures the global aspect of state hope and its two specific dimensions: agency and pathways. The results also revealed that the SHS-PL scores showed full scalar invariance across genders and across two age groups. Finally, the total score as well as the agency and pathways scales achieved acceptable levels of reliability (in both studies, the Cronbach's α coefficient was greater than .85 for all scales) and validity: Correlations of the SHSPL scores with dispositional hope and with positive and negative affect conformed to the theoretically expected pattern of results. The results provide evidence supporting the postulated structure of state hope and validate the new Polish-language version of its measure.
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hope
psychometric properties
factorial structure
psychometric properties
factorial structure
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