This book provides research on the individual differences of hope. It reviews the role hope has in recovery and its impact on emotional health. Chapter One describes the importance of hope in peoples’ personal and professional lives. Chapter Two presents hope as a major factor in predicting the resilience of families. Chapter Three attempts to explicate theoretically the impact of hope on adolescents’ optimal achievement and its impact on their emotional well-beings. Chapter Four studies the relationship between hope, spirituality and life satisfaction, using a structural equation model approach. Chapter Five examines Polish students’ and how their spiritual experiences mediate between hope and religiosity. Chapter Six uncovers the emotional problems preceding an eating disorder and the main reasons and explanations for the development of these problems. Chapter Seven explores the two-sided nature of hope as it pertains to decision-making at the end-of-life. Chapter Eight examines the experience of hope in caregivers of children with CI. Chapter Nine focuses on the revisiting and re-storying of hopeful actions and practices in the face of emotional hurt, physical pain, sorrow, loss and shattered dreams.
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