Hong, Philip Young P; Choi, Sangmi. International Journal of Psychology Research; Hauppauge Том 8, Изд. 3, (2013): 173-189.
Выберите один или несколько элементов.
Чтобы использовать цитирование, отправку по электронной почте, сохранение и экспорт, сначала выберите элементы результатов.
У вас может быть доступ к полной статье.
Попробуйте войти через свое учреждение и проверьте, есть ли у него доступ к полному тексту.
This chapter presents findings on revalidation of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) using a recently collected independent sample of 661 low-income jobseekers. This client-centered measure captures an aspect of multi-dimensional psychological self-sufficiency (SS) as a process-driven assessment tool. The original employment hope metric was constructed as a 24-item six-factor structure from its earlier conceptualization resulting from client focus group interviews.
The EHS measure was initially validated using an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), resulting in a 14-item two-factor structure with Factor 1 representing 'psychological empowerment' and Factor 2 representing 'goal-oriented pathways'. In the following revalidation process using a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), this 14-item two-factor EHS was modified into a 14-item four-factor EHS-14, with two higher order components, based on the original theoretical suggestion. The CFA result on the modified model adds another evidence for generalization, indicating that EHS-14 is a consistent and valid tool.
With the recent emergence of positive psychology and strengths-based approaches, researchers have taken an interest identifying and examining individuals' personal strengths, competencies and adaptive behaviors, as opposed to focusing primarily on pathology (Valle, Huebner, & Suido, 2006). The concept of hope is one such positive attribute that has gained researchers' attention in recent years and has the potential for myriad applications. High levels of hope have been positively correlated with an increase in positive outcomes including higher levels of self-esteem and better academic performance (Valle, et al., 2006), as well as facilitating meaning-making in people with terminal illnesses (Eliott & Olver, 2009). Hope is energizing in situations of adversity and is almost synonymous with finding meaning (Buckley & Herth, 2004). Lazarus (1999) maintains that without the prospect of hope, the individual is left to the uncomfortable arousal state of despair and hopelessness, whereby a person does not possess the capacity to foresee any desirable outcome.
Hong and his colleagues (2009; 2012) have developed and validated the Employment Hope Scale (EHS). EHS was originally designed to measure an aspect of psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) to complement a rather dominant paradigm of economic self-sufficiency (ESS) in workforce development. The former has been defined as a transformative process of reaching one's employment and financial goals (Hong, Sheriff, & Naeger, 2009) that involves overcoming perceived employment barriers by way of enhancing.
