The color and texture of hope: Some preliminary findings and implications for hope theory and counseling among diverse racial/ethnic groups

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-103

  Chang, Edward C ^a   Banks, Kira Hudson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Agentic and pathways thinking; Hope; Life satisfaction; Racial and ethnic differences; Social problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; COUNSELING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOPE THEORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STUDENT ATTITUDE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; COLOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COUNSELING; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION THEORY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THINKING;

EID: 34248562614     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.13.2.94     Document Type: Article

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