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A Positive Psychological Understanding of Hope for the Future: Letters From a Life After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mühlbauer, J. (2022) A Positive Psychological Understanding of Hope for the Future: Letters From a Life After the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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| Abstract: | The aim of this study was to investigate how hope and hopelessness are displayed in personal narratives concerning a post-corona future. That way, insights into personal perspectives on hope for a future after COVID-19 were generated. This study is part of a larger project on post-corona narratives and based on its data collection. Data was collected on a multidimensional questionnaire on hope and the Letters from the Future. For this study, Digital Story Grammar was performed on the participants’ (N=49) Letters from the Future. The results displayed that personal and other-focused hope were related to the most usage of positively associated being phrases, and least used negatively connotated mental sensing words. Also, people high on hope described their existence in the future more in-depth compared to people with less hope. Personal hope was especially observed by the most frequent use of relational being words. Material and expressional doing phrases, as well as the stated emotions seemed to emphasise the presented perspective of hope or hopelessness in text. The results could be put into context with literature, setting it into perspective with linear restitution narratives and linear chaos narratives on hope, the definition of ‘active hope’ and its relation to faith. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/92918 |
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