(C) Hope: Finding Pathways to Well-being

Hope is a cognitive state that leads to an optimistic outlook in life through goal planning, motivation, and problem solving to overcome challenges and meet goals. Hope involves 3 distinctive components: goals thinking involving a clear sense of goals, pathways thinking involving the conceptualization of strategies and paths to ensure goal completion, and agency which is the motivation maintained to achieve successful goal completion.

Hope enhances well-being over time by leading to engagement, meaning, and accomplishment after attaining goals. It helps achieve positive expectations regarding the future. The upcoming steps in this section of the growth path invite you to set specific goals and find hope to use different pathways to enhanced well-being.