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Other-Oriented Hope Reflects an Orientation Toward Others

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Understanding Other-Oriented Hope

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This chapter explores numerous well-established psychological concepts that reflect people’s interest in others, including social interest, belongingness, relatedness, attachment, communion, social value orientation, the prosocial personality, and self-transcendent values. These concepts can be unified within a broad, encompassing psychological dimension termed other-interest, and can be contrasted with the dimension termed self-interest. Other-oriented hope is viewed as an additional manifestation of the motivational dimension of other-interest.

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  1. Department of Psychology, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Andrew J. Howell

  2. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Denise J. Larsen

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Howell, A.J., Larsen, D.J. (2015). Other-Oriented Hope Reflects an Orientation Toward Others. In: Understanding Other-Oriented Hope. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15007-9_2

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