Hope: Expected Positive Affect in an Adult Sample
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Genetic Psychology
- Vol. 148 (3) , 357-364
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.1987.9914565
Abstract
Hope, the expectation of desirable future events, can be operationalized as the difference between expected positive affect and expected negative affect. Measures of hope and happiness as well as several global measures of quality of life or well-being were obtained from a sample of 257 adults ranging from 25 to 72 years of age. Hope did not decrease with age, but negative affect, both past and expected, did decrease with age. Hope emerged as a robust variable, correlating in an expected fashion with other measures of well-being.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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