Preliminary assessment of Apache hopefulness: Relationships with hopelessness and with collective as well as personal self-esteem.

نویسندگان

  • Vanessa Lea Hammond
  • P J Watson
  • Brian J O'Leary
  • D Lisa Cothran
چکیده

Hopelessness is central to prominent mental health problems within American Indian (AI) communities. Apaches living on a reservation in Arizona responded to diverse expressions of hope along with Hopelessness, Personal Self-Esteem, and Collective Self-Esteem scales. An Apache Hopefulness Scale expressed five themes of hope and correlated negatively with Hopelessness and positively with both Collective and Personal Self-Esteem. These data confirmed the potential of conducting more extensive analyses of hope within AI tribal life.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • American Indian and Alaska native mental health research

دوره 16 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009