ORIGINAL ARTICLE Received 5 October. 2020 Accepted 28 April. 2021 Vol. 7, Issue 1 and 2, 7-16, 2021 Iranian Journal of Positive Psychology ISSN: 2423-6985 ijpp.worldofresearches.com 7 January and April, 2021 . Studying Psychometric Properties of Children Hope Scale among Iranian Students Fatemeh Amini 1 , Mahnaz Aliakbari Dehkordi *2 , Tahere Rezazadeh 3 , Zahra Karimi 4 , Tayebe Mohtashami 5 1. Ph.D. Student of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of psychology and Education Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. 2. Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. 3. M.A of Psychology, Faculty of psychology and Education Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. 4. M.A of psychology, Department of psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. 5. M.A of psychology, Department of psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. A B S T R A C T In recent years, research in the field of positive psychology has increased. The ultimate goal of this approach is to identify the structures and practices that enable and sustain human beings in the face of life's difficulties and adversities. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of Children hope scale among students aged 10 to 16 years. The statistical sample of this study was 500 students (324 girls and 176 boys) in Iran who were selected by multi-stage cluster method from the statistical population. Subjects responded to C. R. Snyder et al. (1997), Children's hope scale (CHS). To confirm the validity of the structure of this scale, confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency method were used and to evaluate the reliability, Cronbach coefficient was used. In general, the fitness characteristics of the confirmatory factor analysis model indicated appropriate fitness of the research data with the factor structure of Children hope scale. Moreover, the internal consistency method indicated validity of the structure of this scale. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient also indicated the stability of the measurement of children's hope scale. Based on these results, Synder et al. children hope scale can be used as a suitable measurement tool in research on students in this age range. Keywords: Children Hope Scale, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Internal Consistency, Iranian Population. INTRODUCTION Positive psychology is the crystallization of a change in psychology because it moves from therapy toward optimizing quality of life(C. Snyder, Rand, & Sigmon, 2005). This approach studies the scientific strengths and weaknesses of human beings(Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2014), and seeks to explore individual talents in the face of challenges and identify empowering factors in everyday experiences and factors that make life valuable for living(Suldo & Huebner, 2004). Hope is also a factor in personality empowerment and is in fact a motivational cognitive * . Corresponding Author: m_akbari@pnu.ac.ir DOI: In prossing To cite this article: Amini, F., Aliakbari Dehkordi, M., Rezazadeh, T., Karimi, Z., Mohtashami, T. (2021). Studying Psychometric Properties of Children Hope Scale among Iranian Students. Iranian Journal of Positive Psychology, 7 (1 and 2), 7-16.