Dataset presenting a study investigating how four age groups of South African adults find hope and how different hope sources influence their levels of dispositional hope (DH), perceived hope (PH) and psychosocial well-being (PWB). The dataset includes two files, i.e. The file 'Sources of hope descriptive data' provides information about the most common sources of hope in each age group and the file 'Regression summary tables' shows the results from the multiple regression models from each age group.