Andreas M. Krafft
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Item type:Publication, The Centrality of Hope in Psychiatry and PsychotherapyIn this essay, hope is presented as a key driver of psychiatric and psychotherapy outcomes, helping clients move beyond symptom relief toward meaning, resilience, and flourishing. The text integrates goal-based models with relational, narrative, and cultural dimensions. Drawing on the “standard account,” the author proposes that hope is the interplay of wishing for a valued good, believing its attainment is possible (though difficult), and trusting internal and external resources, including the therapeutic alliance. A vignette of Susanne, a young woman with partial dissociative identity disorder, illustrates how psychoeducation and small wins increase belief, while a consistent therapeutic alliance builds trust that extends to self-trust and cooperation. Clinicians play a central role as “hope carriers,” shaping realistic goals, reinforcing progress, and avoiding false hope.Type:journal articleJournal:Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and PsychotherapyVolume:176Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, How Do We Hope? The Neuro-Cognitive Foundation of Hoping and Believing(Scientific Research Publishing, Inc., 2026-06-26); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Perceptuo-cognitive development in infancy and childhood(Academia.edu Journals, 2026-08-03); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Demographic factors and Structure of Vaccination Attitudes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic(University of Ostrava, 2026-03-08) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Perceived and Dispositional Hope as Health-Related Constructs: Adaptation and Validation of the Polish Version of the Perceived Hope ScaleBackground: The effectiveness of treatment depends on recognizing the needs and limitations of patients. Hope is a personal resource that facilitates the treatment and recovery process. Dispositional hope encompasses goal-directed action, whereas perceived hope lacks reference to specific content or behavior. This study examined which construct is more strongly related to psychological, physical, and emotional health. Perceived hope requires a new tool for measurement. Adaptation to the Polish cultural context is the second goal of this research. Methods: Data were collected in the international online study Barometer of Hope (n = 1608). Adult participants completed the PSH, ADHS, and a battery of self-report questionnaires assessing several key well-being outcomes. Results: Perceived hope appears to be a more salient construct related to psychological health than dispositional hope, although both aspects of hope demonstrate similar associations with physical health. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the hypothesized one-factor structure of the Polish version of the Perceived Hope Scale (PHS-PL), indicating high internal consistency as well as strong convergent and discriminant validity. The PHS-PL showed positive correlations with optimism, life satisfaction, happiness, positive affect, and dispositional hope, and negative correlations with depression/anxiety, loneliness, and negative affect. Additionally, perceived hope was negatively associated with the likelihood of a crisis scenario and positively associated with the likelihood of a flourishing scenario. Conclusions: Our findings confirm that hope is a health-enhancing resource. The PHS is a simple, short, culturally universal method that directly measures hope and can also be successfully used by non-psychologists, such as nurses, physicians, and caregivers.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Clinical MedicineVolume:14Issue:10Scopus© Citations 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Basic beliefs of hope: a cross-cultural comparisonBased on a transdisciplinary concept of hope defined as the belief in the possibility of a wished-for good and the trust in (external) resources that could make this possibility happen, the current paper attempts to evaluate the nature and role of basic beliefs related to a broader perception of hope from people with diverse cultural backgrounds. Two empirical studies from the Hope Barometer research program performed in November 2021 (N = 1.721) and November 2023 (N = 2.064) aim to compare the levels of generally perceived hope and basic beliefs of the French and Italian populations in Switzerland. Via multivariate hierarchical regression analyses we evaluate the extent to which culturally shaped basic beliefs are distinctively connected to this perception of hope. The results back up the idea that believing in the world's goodness, fairness, abundance, controllability, and beauty, along with a sense of luck and self-worth, can give people hope that goes beyond just focusing on their own agency and ability to reach their individual goals. Despite similar socioeconomic conditions, participants representing the Italian-speaking population display higher levels of perceived hope, dispositional hope, and several basic beliefs about the world and oneself. Furthermore, in the Italian group, primal world beliefs have a stronger connection to perceived hope than in the French speaking group. With regard to psychological theories of hope, these findings imply that it would be misleading to reduce the experience of hope only to individualistic goal-oriented dimensions and to ignore other elements and sources of hope, particularly when hope is related to some broader social domains.Type:journal articleJournal:Frontiers in PsychologyVolume:16Scopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The moderating effect of perceived hope in the relationship between anxiety and posttraumatic growth during the Russian-Ukrainian war(Frontiers Media SA, 2024-08-02)Scopus© Citations 13 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The value of hope: Validation of the perceived hope scale
in the Portuguese populationHope is a timeless phenomenon that has witnessed a re-emergence in recent times and has been conceptualized and measured in many different ways. The Perceived Hope Scale (PHS) intends to measure hope in an unbiased way, asking people directly about their experienced levels of hope. This paper presents the validation and psychometric evaluation of the PHS in the Portuguese context. It evaluates the reliability and the factorial structure via exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, as well as convergent validity and predictive/incremental utility using two samples of 452 adult individuals and 266 university students. Results suggest that the Portuguese version of the PHS exhibits robust psychometric properties: a one-dimensional structure with high internal consistency, as well as convincing convergent validity and predictive power. The PHS was found to relate highly to other psychological dimensions, such as harmony in life, vitality, and flourishing (positively), and negatively with depression and anxiety, adding to their prediction beyond dispositional hope and optimism. Overall, the scale presented here proved to be a useful instrument for assessing perceived hope in the Portuguese context. This study is part of a yearly cross-cultural and cross-sectional internet survey entitled Hope Barometer.Type:journal articleScopus© Citations 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Adaptation, Further Elaboration, and Validation of a Scale to Measure Hope as Perceived by People: Discriminant Value and Predictive Utility Vis-à-Vis Dispositional HopeAgainst the background of different psychological conceptualizations of hope, this paper elaborates and validates a measure to assess hope as perceived by the general public adapting it from the hope and optimism subscale of the WHOQOL-SRPB. The results presented here are part of a yearly internet-based cross-sectional survey in Germany and Switzerland called Hope-Barometer, from which 4 samples of 3 different years with about 17’500 participants have been used. Following the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses as well as convergent validity, discriminant value and predictive utility, our findings suggest that the 6-items of the resulting Perceived Hope Scale exhibits robust psychometric properties, and that perceived hope is distinct and broader than dispositional hope, in that it relates not only to cognitive but also to spiritual, religious and altruistic dimensions.Type:journal articleJournal:AssessmentVolume:online first