Sun Rachel C F, Shek Daniel T L
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2012;2012:527038. doi: 10.1100/2012/527038. Epub 2012 Apr 24.
Beliefs in the future are an internalization of hope and optimism about future outcomes. This paper reviews and compares several theories of hope and optimism and highlights the features constituting beliefs in the future. This paper points out that beliefs in the future include a series of goal-directed thoughts and motivation, such as setting up valued and attainable goals, planning pathways, and maintaining self-confidence and mastery, so as to keep adolescents engaged in the pursuit of goals. This kind of personal mastery, together with sociocultural values, family, school, and peers are the antecedents leading to beliefs in the future, which is related to adolescents' well-being and positive development. In order to cultivate adolescents' beliefs in the future, enabling their ability to manipulate goal-directed thoughts and motivation and providing a supportive environment including their family, school, peers, and the society are recommended.
对未来的信念是对未来结果的希望和乐观的内化。本文回顾并比较了几种希望和乐观理论,并突出了构成对未来信念的特征。本文指出,对未来的信念包括一系列目标导向的思维和动机,例如设定有价值且可实现的目标、规划路径以及保持自信和掌控感,从而使青少年持续投入到对目标的追求中。这种个人掌控感,连同社会文化价值观、家庭、学校和同伴,都是导致对未来信念的先行因素,而这与青少年的幸福感和积极发展相关。为了培养青少年对未来的信念,则建议培养他们操控目标导向思维和动机的能力,并提供一个包括其家庭、学校、同伴和社会在内的支持性环境。