Abler Laurie, Hill Lauren, Maman Suzanne, DeVellis Robert, Twine Rhian, Kahn Kathleen, MacPhail Catherine, Pettifor Audrey
Department of Health Behavior, UNC Chapel Hill, 331 Rosenau Hall, CB #7440, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
AIDS Behav. 2017 Jul;21(7):2156-2166. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1523-6.
Hope is a future expectancy characterized by an individual's perception that a desirable future outcome can be achieved. Though scales exist to measure hope, they may have limited relevance in low resource, high HIV prevalence settings. We developed and validated a hope scale among young women living in rural South Africa. We conducted formative interviews to identify the key elements of hope. Using items developed from these interviews, we administered the hope scale to 2533 young women enrolled in an HIV-prevention trial. Women endorsed scale items highly and the scale proved to be unidimensional in the sample. Hope scores were significantly correlated with hypothesized psycholosocial correlates with the exception of life stressors. Overall, our hope measure was found to have excellent reliability and to show encouraging preliminary indications of validity in this population. This study presents a promising measure to assess hope among young women in South Africa.
希望是一种对未来的预期，其特征是个体认为可以实现理想的未来结果。尽管存在衡量希望的量表，但在资源匮乏、艾滋病毒高流行率的环境中，它们的相关性可能有限。我们在南非农村的年轻女性中开发并验证了一种希望量表。我们进行了形成性访谈，以确定希望的关键要素。利用从这些访谈中得出的项目，我们对参与一项艾滋病毒预防试验的2533名年轻女性进行了希望量表测试。女性对量表项目的认可度很高，并且该量表在样本中被证明是单维的。希望得分与假设的心理社会相关因素显著相关，但生活压力源除外。总体而言，我们发现我们的希望测量方法具有出色的可靠性，并在该人群中显示出令人鼓舞的初步效度迹象。这项研究提出了一种很有前景的方法来评估南非年轻女性的希望。
