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4.1.7 Gifted Student Hopefulness: A Goal Directed Strengths Approach for Student Success and Personal Well-Being
When conceptualized as an active construct, hope becomes a framework that supports goal achievement and becomes a contributor to personal and psychological well-being. This session presents the construct of hope as goal-directed thought processes. Additionally, the researcher presents findings from a completed study on the contribution of hopefulness in honors college students and early college entrants to overall personal well-being. The study used the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale to measure hopefulness and Personal Well-being Index-Adult to measure levels of personal well-being. Results suggest goal-directed hopefulness is important to gifted college student development and their personal well-being.