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Psychometric Properties and Rasch Validation of the Herth Hope Index in a Sample of Portuguese Higher Education Students During a Pandemic

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Médicas::Ciências da Saúde
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg04:Educação de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorLaranjeira, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorQuerido, Ana
dc.contributor.authorLourenço, Tânia
dc.contributor.authorCharepe, Zaida
dc.contributor.authorAli, Amira Mohammed
dc.contributor.authorFekih-Romdhane, Feten
dc.contributor.authorYıldırım, Murat
dc.contributor.authorDixe, Maria dos Anjos
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-18T09:04:56Z
dc.date.available2025-10-18T09:04:56Z
dc.date.issued2025-08-22
dc.descriptionThis article belongs to the Special Issue Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Students and Teachers: Strategies for School-Based Interventions The authors express their profound gratitude to the students who generously contributed to the study and to the staff who participated in the recruitment process.
dc.descriptionArticle number - 1087
dc.description.abstractA greater understanding of health-promoting factors, such as hope, is crucial for preventing and enhancing the mental health of higher education students. The Herth Hope Index (HHI) is a 12-item tool that has been widely used to assess a comprehensive, non-temporal perception of hope. While this instrument has been used extensively in adult populations, most studies focus on clinical populations. Additionally, the HHI reveals inconsistencies in terms of scale dimensionality and items to be retained. Therefore, this study sought to assess the HHI’s psychometric characteristics in a sample of Portuguese Higher Education students. The person response validity, internal scale validity, unidimensionality, and uniform differential item functioning were assessed using a Rasch rating scale model. A total of 2227 higher education students participated during the e-survey activation period (spring semester of 2020). The mean age of the sample was 22.5 ± 6.2 years (range 18–59 years). Three of the twelve items (#3, #5, and #6) failed to satisfy the established criterion for goodness of fit. Following the elimination of these three items, the resultant nine-item scale exhibited satisfactory item fit to the model, appropriate unidimensionality (52.4% of the variance explained), enough person goodness of fit, sufficient separation, and the absence of differential item functioning. The 9-item version of the HHI had psychometric properties comparable to the original 12-item version. This study also underscores the importance of validated instruments for assessing hope-based interventions in academic contexts. Further research is necessary to explore the potential dimensions inherent to the hope concept and to identify variations in hope profiles among items influenced by cultural attributes.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is also supported by national funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. [(UID/05704/2023)]—and under the Scientific Employment Stimulus-Institutional Call [(https://doi.org/10.54499/CEECINST/00051/2018/CP1566/CT0012, accessed on 20 July 2025)].
dc.identifier.citationLaranjeira, C.; Querido, A.; Lourenço, T.; Charepe, Z.; Ali, A.M.; Fekih-Romdhane, F.; Yıldırım, M.; Dixe, M.A. Psychometric Properties and Rasch Validation of the Herth Hope Index in a Sample of Portuguese Higher Education Students During a Pandemic. Educ. Sci. 2025, 15, 1087. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15091087
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/educsci15091087
dc.identifier.issn2227-7102
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14315
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15/9/1087
dc.relation.ispartofEducation Sciences
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectHerth Hope Index
dc.subjectPortugal
dc.subjectRasch analysis
dc.subjectstudents
dc.titlePsychometric Properties and Rasch Validation of the Herth Hope Index in a Sample of Portuguese Higher Education Students During a Pandemiceng
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.issue9
oaire.citation.titleEducation Sciences
oaire.citation.volume15
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