Optimism, pessimism, and psychological well-being.

By M. Scheier, C. Carver, Michael W. Bridges. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

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2. Keith M. Hmieleski
3. Ulla Kinnunen *
4. Michael S. Cole
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6. Alexander Newman
7. Anne Mäkikangas
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In Clinical Psychology

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3. Gökmen Arslan
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5. Ulla Kinnunen *
6. Murat Yıldırım
7. Anne Mäkikangas
8. Alexander Smeja

In Social Psychology

1. John W. Lounsbury
2. Keith M. Hmieleski
3. Lucy W. Gibson
4. Dietmar Grichnik
5. Robert A. Baron
6. Laurie T. O’Brien
7. Ulla Kinnunen *
8. Anne Mäkikangas

Citations in the corpus

• The Importance of Being Emotional : How do Emotions Affect Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation? (2010, background): “…the extant field of optimism literature it has been indicated by research that optimism influences the beliefs of individuals about achieving goals (Scheier et al., 2001) and that it has a curvilinear relationship with decision-making (Casson, 2005) and performance (Brown and Marshall, 2001).”
• Optimism–Pessimism and Stress Appraisal: Testing a Cognitive Interactive Model of Psychological Adjustment in Adults (2002, background): “Insofar that optimism and pessimism, respectively, represent important dimensions of positive and negative cognition that have been found to be associated with psychological adjustment in adults (Scheier et al., 2001; Scheier & Carver, 1985, 1992), it is likely that these variables also interact wit”
• Entrepreneurs’ Improvisational Behavior and Firm Performance: A Study of Dispositional and Environmental Moderators (2013, background): “Dispositional optimism, the generalized expectation of experiencing positive outcomes (Scheier et al., 2001), has important implications for the judgment and decision making of entrepreneurs and, consequently, for their ability to effectively improvise.”
• Coronavirus stress, meaningful living, optimism, and depressive symptoms: a study of moderated mediation model (2020, background): “viduals (Scheier et al., 2001), it is plausible that optimism and pessimism might explain the relationship between stress, meaning in life, and depressive symptoms.”
• An Investigation of Personality Traits in Relation to Career Satisfaction (2003, background): “Because optimists have generally positive outlooks and a tendency to downplay problems as well as persist in the face of setbacks (Scheier et al., 2001), it is understandable that optimism would be positively related to career satisfaction.”
• Entrepreneurs' Optimism And New Venture Performance: A Social Cognitive Perspective (2009, background): “…levels of optimism tend to be related to heuristic decision making and lower levels of optimism tend to be related to systematic decision making (Scheier et al., 2001), and because repeat entrepreneurs tend to rely more heavily on intuitive modes of thinking than novice entrepreneurs (Brigham,…”