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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.

Author(s):

Janette Boazman
jboazman@udallas.edu
University of Dallas
United States

   

Janette Boazman, Ph.D., is an associate professor of education at the University of Dallas. She holds a Master of Science degree in Educational Psychology with a specialization in gifted learners, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in gifted learners. Her work focuses on academic and psychological factors leading to academic and career success, and to personal well-being of the gifted and talented in K-12 schools, college, and across the lifespan. Janette has authored books, several articles, and has made numerous presentations centering on the needs of high ability learners at the state, national, and international level.

 


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