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Efficacy of a hope program for inner-city children
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Dinolfo, Christa A
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1386600333
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Year and Degree
2009, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Xavier University, Psychology.
Abstract
The present study implemented an intervention designed to increase hope as conceptualized by Snyder et al.'s (1991) Hope Theory. The eight week Hope Intervention (HI) and comparison group in the present study included 24 children ages 7- to 11-years old from an urban after-school center in a subsidized housing community. In contrast to previous studies that have shown increased hope scores as a result of the intervention, participants in the comparison (control) group actually showed greater increases in Pathways scores on the Children's Hope Scale from pre- to post-test and follow-up than those in the HI. The present findings are discussed with reference to the ways to increase hope in children.
Committee
Kathleen J. Hart, Ph.D., ABPP (Committee Chair)
Nicholas Salsman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kathleen Burklow, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
129 p.
Subject Headings
Counseling Psychology
;
Social Work
Keywords
social sciences
;
psychology
;
hope program
;
inner city
;
children
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Dinolfo, C. A. (2009).
Efficacy of a hope program for inner-city children
[Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1386600333
APA Style (7th edition)
Dinolfo, Christa.
Efficacy of a hope program for inner-city children.
2009. Xavier University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1386600333.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Dinolfo, Christa. "Efficacy of a hope program for inner-city children." Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1386600333
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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