title: Similarities and differences in experiences of hope.
abstract: From a human becoming perspective, hope is considered to be a universal lived experience, which arises and fades in the human-universe process. This article is a comparison of six Parse research method studies on the lived experience of hope from five countries: Japan, Taiwan, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. The goal was to explore the similarities and differences in the findings of a nine-country study on hope. While the structure of the experience of hope was similar, some differences are discussed that enhance nursing practice and guide further study.
authors.affiliation: Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Baumann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009013:Morale; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D013548:Sweden; D013624:Taiwan; D016746:Transcultural Nursing; D014481:United States