Measuring hope in the Philippines: Validating the short version of the locus-of-hope scale in Filipino

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Social Indicators Research

Volume

119

Issue

3

First Page

1649

Last Page

1661

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

A short version of the locus-of-hope Scale was developed and translated into the Filipino language for the purpose of assessing hope in Filipinos who have lower levels of education and who may not have adequate levels of proficiency in English. The 20-item scale had four locus-of-hope subscales (internal, external-family, external-peers, and external-spiritual) each with four items (another four were filler items); all items described thoughts associated with some capacity and strategy to attain important goals in life. A sample (N = 362) of adults from communities in Metro Manila were asked to answer the scale, as well as measures of optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated an adequate fit between the hypothesized four-factor structure and the data, but the internal locus-of-hope scale was found to have low internal consistency. Regression analysis showed positive associations between the internal and external-family locus-of-hope subscales and the three measures of wellbeing. But external-peers locus-of-hope was negatively associated with optimism and self-esteem, and external-spiritual locus-of-hope was positively related with optimism. © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1007/s11205-013-0573-7

Disciplines

Psychology

Keywords

Hope; Optimism--Philippines; Self-esteem--Philippines; Satisfaction

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