A person-oriented analysis of hope in Chinese adolescents

作者：Ling, Yu^*; Huebner, E Scott; Fu, Peng; Zeng, Yifang; He, Yushu

来源：Personality and Individual Differences, 2016, 101: 446-450.

DOI：10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.048

• Hope
• Latent class analysis
• Chinese adolescents

Using latent class analysis, we explored the within-person configurations of hope in a sample of Chinese adolescents. A total of 1688 adolescents (801 boys and 887 girls) from Mainland China completed measures of hope, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and depression. Obvious grouping features appeared, and a model of the three latent classes was supported. The three classes of 'high hope', 'average hope', and 'low hope' accounted for 32%, 47.5%, and 20.5% of the variance respectively. Compared to the average- and low-hope classes, the high-hope class reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction, self-esteem and optimism and lower levels of depression, suggesting that higher levels of hope are adaptive in non-Western cultures as well as Western ones.

• 出版日期2016-10
• 单位湖南农业大学