Hope’s relation with self-esteem, optimism, and life satisfaction in engineering students

Pages:283-287
Kaustubh V. Yadav (Department of Psychology, University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra)
Nutankumar S. Thingujam (Department of Psychology, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim )

The objective of the present study was to examine if the hope of the engineering students is related to their self esteem, optimism, and life satisfaction. Three hundred (150 males; 150 females) students in the age group of 19 to 25 years in different engineering colleges in Pune responded to the standardized measurements of hope, self esteem, optimism, and life satisfaction. Result showed that hope was correlated positively with self esteem, optimism and life satisfaction. Besides, all the four scale were internally consistent (alpha >=, 70). It is suggested that present findings provide initial evidence for the applicability of Snyder and colleagues’ two factor hope scale in Indian context.