Hope in Pandemic Days: Romantic Relationship, Gender Roles and Subjective Well-Being

OpenAlex · İngilizce

Hope is defined as the motivation to set goals that are expected to be realized in the future and to achieve these goals. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between hope with differentials of gender, romantic relationship, income level and age, and to find out what extend attitudes towards gender roles and subjective well-being predict hope. Five hundred and eighty-eight people with an average age of 30 participated in the study. According to the results hope did not differ significantly according to gender, the levels of hope of those who were engaged or married were significantly higher than those who did not have a romantic relationship, it has been observed that the increase in age and income level also increases hope. In addition to all these, it has been determined that having an egalitarian approach towards gender roles and subjective well-being also predicts hope.