Hopefulness of ‘Hope’

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

Hopefulness among non-U.S.-born Latino youth and young adults.

PROBLEM U.S. Latino youths experience disproportionately high rates of health and social problems. There is a need to identify protective factors for reducing risky behaviors. Little is known about the protective nature of hope among immigrant Latino adolescents. METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study examined hope and expectations for the future in non-U.S.-born Latino adolescents an...

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Effect of hope therapy on the hope of diabetic patients

BACKGROUND Hope is the most important factor in diabetic patients' life. The level of hope may be changing among these individuals as a result of chronic nature of diabetes and its complications. When the level of hope increases among these patients, they can resist against physical and psychological complications of diabetes more, accept the treatment better, enjoy life more, and adapt with th...

Critical hopefulness: a person-centered analysis of the intersection of cognitive and emotional empowerment.

Leaders in struggles for social justice agree on the importance and the difficulty of maintaining hopefulness while developing critical awareness of social issues. Research has indicated that the analogous components of psychological empowerment (emotional and cognitive) often do not co-vary across populations. This study used a person-centered analytic approach, latent class analysis, to ident...