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Hope and Education: Role of Psychological Capital and Cultural Differences

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Hope for a Good Life

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series ((SINS,volume 72))

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Hope is a relevant variable in education and there is enough empirical evidence about its significant relationships with important education related. In this chapter, we make a brief summary of hope in an educational context by introducing the construct of psychological capital (PsyCap) that we speculate to have an impact on education and that possibly play an important role in promoting students’ personal resources. In order to contextualize, Snyder’s hope conceptualization is discussed in relation to some proposals that are reverberated and rooted in cultural differences. We also present preliminary findings from an international research on hope highlighting major cultural differences. In all, this chapter attempts to extend the effect of positive resources beyond hope.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Valle Flores-Lucas & Raquel Martínez-Sinovas

  2. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India

    Rajneesh Choubisa

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Flores-Lucas, V., Martínez-Sinovas, R., Choubisa, R. (2018). Hope and Education: Role of Psychological Capital and Cultural Differences. In: Krafft, A., Perrig-Chiello, P., Walker, A. (eds) Hope for a Good Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78470-0_9

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