A Comparative Study on Hope Between Adolescent Male and Female

The concept of psychological capital can be defined as an individual’s positive psychological state of development, which consists of four components: self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resiliency.  Hope is an individual’s determination to maintain effort toward goals and ability to determine alternative courses of action to attain those goals. PsyCap is a recently developed higher order construct applied in the context of organizations, which has been hypothesized to aid employees cope with stress effectively in the workplace by increasing their psychological and physical well-being. It increases their chances of success by relying on perseverance and effort. This study aims to explore the difference in the nature of Hope among male and female adults. Data was collected via the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PSQ), administered on 60 participants aged between 18-25 years, from different colleges of Kolkata, using simple random sampling method. Results indicated the following points: Hope is higher among male adolescents with respect to Hope, Hope is lower among female adolescents with respect to Hope. The study implies to use the power of PsyCap constructively to promote positive outcomes in a variety of student situations and to provide them training to use Hope as a motivating factor which can help them with lower levels of distressed thinking as a constructive approach towards the future especially when faced with stressful situations and implications for educators in developing and promoting positive outcomes based on Positive Psychological Capital.