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How Do We Learn To Hope? The Development Of The Parent Report Of Child Hope, Lauren A. Sparks
How Do We Learn To Hope? The Development Of The Parent Report Of Child Hope, Lauren A. Sparks
Wayne State University Dissertations
Hope has been shown to be an important protective factor, with hypothesized origins in early childhood (Snyder, 2002). However, despite the established importance of hope, little research to date has examined its developmental origins. Specifically, a lack of appropriate instrumentation represents a significant barrier to detecting hope in children under the age of eight years old. The current study meets this need by examining the reliability and validity of a novel parent-report measure of hope in early childhood, titled the Parent Report of Child Hope (PRCH). The PRCH represents an initial step towards understanding individual differences in early childhood hope. …