Philippine E-Journals

Internal and External Locus-of-Hope Dimensions as Predictors of Subjective Well-being among Filipino College Students

Jacqueline V. Iglesias | Voltaire M. Marquez

 

Abstract:

Hope has been viewed as a self-determined, goal-oriented cognition that can lead to positive outcomes (Snyder, 2002), but Bernardo (2010), extended the Dispositional Hope theory by adding external locus-of-hope dimensions. Since hope is not only self-determined but also externally derived, both its internal and external dimensions can be agents of goal directed pursuits. The present study hypothesized that not only internal hope is associated with subjective well-being but so are the external locusof-hope dimensions. Responses from survey questionnaires given to 248 Filipino adolescents were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression. Results showed that, in Model 1, internal locus of hope (β=.47, p<.001) explained 21.9% of the variance of subjective well-being, but the addition of external dimensions in Model 2 increased the explained variance to 29.5%. Internal (β=.33), external-parents (β=.24), and external-spiritual (β=.13) locus-of-hope dimensions predicted subjective well-being. External agents of hope are salient in an interdependent socio-cultural context.