The hope intervention used in the present study consisted of a single, 90-min session (including completion of study measures). The agenda of the session was as follows: (1) the choosing of a personal goal, (2) psychoeducation regarding hope, (3) a hope-based goal mapping exercise, and (4) the hope visualization exercise. At the beginning of the session, students were asked to choose a goal that they would like to accomplish within the next 6 months. They were encouraged to choose any goal that seemed personally relevant to them. They then wrote this goal down and filled out all pre-test study measures (see Sect. 4 for details).