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. 2008 Sep;20(3):310-5.
doi: 10.1037/1040-3590.20.3.310.

On the dimensionality of the Dispositional Hope Scale

Danny Brouwer  1 , Rob R Meijer, Anke M Weekers, Joost J Baneke
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On the dimensionality of the Dispositional Hope Scale

Danny Brouwer et al. Psychol Assess. 2008 Sep.

Abstract

The Dispositional Hope Scale (DHS; C. R. Snyder et al., 1991) consists of two subsets of items measuring Agency and Pathways. The authors used bifactor analysis to evaluate the dimensionality structure of the scale. Data from 676 persons (295 psychiatric patients, 112 delinquents, and 269 students) were analyzed. The authors conclude that although the Pathway items seem to explain some additional variance when the Hope scale variance is partionalized out, the DHS allows unidimensional measurement.

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