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Validated measure · Individual capacity

The Adult Hope Scale.

Explore two components of hopeful thinking: the energy to pursue goals and the ability to identify routes toward them.

12 items Agency + Pathways About 5 minutes

Directions

Answer as you see yourself right now.

Read each item carefully. Select the number that best describes you, using the eight-point scale from Definitely False to Definitely True.

The measure’s authors recommend calling it “The Future Scale” when it is administered.

For reflection and development. This measure does not provide a clinical diagnosis. Do not use it by itself for employment, selection, promotion, or other high-stakes decisions.
Response anchors

1 = Definitely False
2 = Mostly False
3 = Somewhat False
4 = Slightly False
5 = Slightly True
6 = Somewhat True
7 = Mostly True
8 = Definitely True

Your progress0 of 12 answered

The Future Scale

Select one response for each statement.

Please answer all 12 items before viewing your scores.

Your results

Your hope profile.

The Adult Hope Scale provides two subscale scores and a combined total. Higher raw scores reflect stronger endorsement of agency and pathways thinking.

Agency
0

Possible range: 4 to 32

Pathways
0

Possible range: 4 to 32

Total hope
0

Possible range: 8 to 64

Agency thinkingYour perceived energy and determination to pursue goals.
Pathways thinkingYour perceived ability to generate workable routes toward goals.

Interpret with care: The source material does not provide universal low, average, or high cutoffs. Use your scores to reflect on the two components of hope. Avoid treating them as a label or diagnosis. Four filler items are included in the measure but are not part of the score.

Measure source

About the Adult Hope Scale

Snyder, C. R., Harris, C., Anderson, J. R., Holleran, S. A., Irving, L. M., Sigmon, S. T., et al. (1991). The will and the ways: Development and validation of an individual-differences measure of hope. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 570-585.

The scale contains four Agency items, four Pathways items, and four unscored filler items. This webpage scores the measure exactly as described in the supplied Adult Hope Scale documentation.

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