Preliminary assessment of Apache hopefulness: Relationships with hopelessness and with collective as well as personal self-esteem.
Hopelessness is central to prominent mental health problems within American Indian (AI) communities. Apaches living on a reservation in Arizona responded to diverse expressions of hope along with Hopelessness, Personal Self-Esteem, and Collective Self-Esteem scales. An Apache Hopefulness Scale expressed five themes of hope and correlated negatively with Hopelessness and positively with both Collective and Personal Self-Esteem. These data confirmed the potential of conducting more extensive analyses of hope within AI tribal life.
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Vanessa Lea
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Psychology Department, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA. paul-watson@utc.edu <paul-watson@utc.edu>
Watson
P J
PJ
O'Leary
Brian J
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Cothran
D Lisa
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001130:Arizona / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012933:Social Identification; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires