🌞 Hope Theory 🐣

🐻 Hope🐼

Defined as a positive motivational state consisting of an individual's ability to create pathways to reaching their goals and to motivate themselves to follow these pathways via agency thinking

Components

Goals⚽️

Pathways Thinking🏈

Agency Thinking⚾️

Levels
of Hope

🍭

πŸ“ Clearly conceptualised goals

πŸ‘ Develop specific strategies/routes to reach your goals

🎯 Initiate and sustain the motivation for using those strageies

🏸 Considerable value to individual

πŸ₯… Approach oriented or preventatitve

πŸ’ Relation to difficulty of attainment

🏏 "I'll find a way to solve this"

🎳 "I'll keep going"

Assessment
Hope Scale
πŸ“Œ πŸ“ πŸ“Œ

⬇️️ LOW ⬇️️

⬆️️ HIGH ⬆️️

Perpetuate negative self-talk 🍏

Embrace agency self-talk 🍧

Vague goals without clear markers 🍎

Experience negative emotions 🍐

Demonstrate apprehension toward action 🍊

Will likely generate fewer goals πŸ‹

Difficulty in selecting, prioritizing and articulating routes πŸ‰

Difficulty in finding alternative routes πŸ‡

Slower to rebound if goal is not attained πŸ“

"All or nothing" thinking 🍈

Become frustrated by goal pursuit πŸ’

Enjoy goal pursuits and energised by challenges 🍨

Select good routes, especially in cases involving stress and goal impediment 🍩

Pursue goals with positive emotions 🍰

Quicker to re-energize 🍭

Will generate more goals 🍬

Able to articulate larger goals and sub-goals to feasibly pursue attainment 🍫

Able to draw from positive memories πŸ”

Can produce sensible alternative routes 🍟

Suggestions for Building Hope

🎾 Think about what really excites you

πŸ‰ Think about forming strong relationships around the things you are interested in

🏐 Invest time in the things you have a passion for and the things you are good at

🎱 Create paths and opportunities to spend time doing what excites you