TABLE 2.

Hope-optimism item distributions for waves 2 and 5.

	New skills		Mental health		Social connectedness		Societal improvement
Correlation	0.505		0.412		0.471		0.479
Degree of hope	wave 2	wave 5	wave 2	wave 5	wave 2	wave 5	wave 2	wave 5
Not at all	48.7%	48.1%	38.5%	33.8%	24.3%	24.1%	15.9%	16.6%
Slightly	30.0%	31.2%	28.0%	36.3%	28.3%	29.7%	28.3%	33.6%
Moderately	14.6%	13.9%	21.9%	19.9%	27.0%	28.2%	31.8%	31.2%
Very hopeful	6.7%	6.8%	11.6%	10.0%	20.4%	17.9%	24.0%	18.6%
Sample size	803	797	803	797	803	797	803	797