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Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies.
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This article describes a scale measuring dispositional optimism, defined in terms of generalized outcome expectancies. Two preliminary studies assessed the scale's psychometric properties and its relationships with several other instruments. The scale was then used in a longitudinal study of symptom reporting among a group of undergraduates. Specifically, respondents were asked to complete three questionnaires 4 weeks before the end of a semester. Included in the questionnaire battery was the measure of optimism, a measure of private self-consciousness, and a 39-item physical symptom checklist. Subjects completed the same set of questionnaires again on the last day of class. Consistent with predictions, subjects who initially reported being highly optimistic were subsequently less likely to report being bothered by symptoms (even after correcting for initial symptom-report levels) than were subjects who initially reported being less optimistic. This effect tended to be stronger among persons high in private self-consciousness than among those lower in private self-consciousness. Discussion centers on other health related applications of the optimism scale, and the relationships between our theoretical orientation and several related theories.
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“The Future Outlook Inventory is an eight-item measure that includes items from the Life Orientation Task (Scheier & Carver, 1985), the Zimbardo Time Perspective Scale (Zimbardo, 1990), and the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, & Edwards, 1994).”
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“For example, dispositionally optimistic college students reported fewer minor illness symptoms during stressful times than did pessimistic students (Aspinwall & Taylor, 1992; Scheier & Carver, 1985, Study 3).”
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“The test can be considered as assessing optimism on a unidimensional scale from optimism to pessimism (Scheier & Carver, 1985a), or as assessing optimism and pessimism as two separate dimensions (Lyons & Chamberlain, 1994, 1998; Marshall, Wortman, Kusulas, Hervig, & Vickers, 1992; Robinson-Whelen,…”
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“Later, Scheier et al. (1994) utilized a large student sample (n 1⁄4 4309) to investigate whether optimism would explain health and adaptive functioning when self-esteem (also self-mastery, trait anxiety, and neuroticism) was partialled out.”
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“PsyCap optimism is the characteristic of individuals who “expect things to go their way, and generally believe that good rather than bad things will happen to them” (Scheier & Carver, 1985, p. 219).”
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“Optimism vs pessimism is operationalized as a dispositional tendency to expect positive vs negative outcomes in one’s life (Carver et al., 2010; Scheier & Carver, 1985).”
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“…RETRAINING 715 the items are worded in a negative way (e.g., “I hardly ever expect things to go my way”), with responses ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 10 (strongly agree; Cronbach’s internal reliability, = .78; test–retest reliability after 13 weeks, r = .72; Scheier & Carver, 1985).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Scheier, M. F., & Carver, C. S.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Venue
- Health Psychology
- Published
- 1985
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 219-247
- ISSN
- 0278-6133 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-7810
- OpenAlex
- W2170246810
- Cited by
- 6,690
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 24.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Keywords
- dispositional optimism, optimism scale, psychometric properties, coping, somatic symptoms, symptom reporting, private self-consciousness, undergraduate students, health
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Attitude, Female, Humans, Male, Personality, Psychological Tests, Psychometrics, Psychophysiologic Disorders, Self Concept, Set, Psychology, Social Perception
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