Hope across cultures

Chapter 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Overview.- Chapter 2: Development of an Integrated Hope Model in a Cross-cultural Context.- Chapter 3: The Values and Targets of Hope.- Chapter 4: Social Expectations and Positive Futures - An Integrative Approach.- Chapter 5: Belief Systems and Worldviews of Hope.- Chapter 6: Sources and Activities of Hope.- Chapter 7: Hope and Quality of Life: A Cross-cultural Study between Spain and South Africa.- Chapter 8. Hope, Mental Health and Future Scenarios in Czech Republic and Poland.- Chapter 9: The hopes and dreams of Maltese University Students.- Chapter 10: Hope Orientation of Students in Muslim Majority Societies.- Chapter 11. Hope vs. Optimism.

Dr. Andreas M. Krafft holds a doctoral degree in Management Sciences at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, with special focus on Organizational Psychology, Culture and Development. He has academic degrees in Social Psychology of Organizations, Work and Health Psychology as well as Positive Psychology from the University of Zürich. Andreas is researcher for futures studies and lecturer at the Institute of Systemic Management and Public Governance at the University of St. Gallen. Furthermore, he teaches at the University of Zürich in the field of Work and Health, at the Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal, as well as at the Master of Futures Studies from the Free University Berlin. He is co-president of swissfuture, the Swiss Society for Futures Studies, member of the executive board of SWIPPA (the Swiss Positive Psychology Association) and of the DACH-PP (German speaking Association of Positive Psychology). Since many years he leads the International Research Network of the Hope Barometer and has published several books and articles in scientific journals.



Prof. Dr. Tharina Guse is a counselling psychologist and obtained an MA (Counselling Psychology) degree from the Potchefstroom University (now North-West University) in 1989. She was in full-time private practice for the next 15 years providing psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults. In 2003 she obtained her PhD (Psychology) from Potchefstroom University. She returned to academia in 2005 and joined the University of Johannesburg. Since April 2018 she is a professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. Currently she serves on the Professional Board for Psychology of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). She is also President of the recently founded South African Positive Psychology Association (SAPPA). Her research focuses are on positive psychology in general and in