Psychological resources, positive illusions, and health.

By Shelley E. Taylor, M. Kemeny, Geoffrey M. Reed, J. Bower, T. Gruenewald. American Psychologist, 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Resources for change: The relationships of organizational inducements and psychological resilience to employees' attitudes and behaviors toward organizational change. (2012, background): “Subsequently, a number of scholars have argued that individuals’ recovery from stressful events with minimal negative impact replenishes their resource reservoir with additional psychological and/or physical resources, which can be employed for future demanding situations (Muraven & Baumeister, 2000”
Posttraumatic growth in clinical psychology - a critical review and introduction of a two component model. (2006, background): “Tedeschi and Calhoun (2004) regard rumination – seen as automatic or deliberate constructive thinking about the traumatic event – as one central process for the development of PTG.”
Proactive Coping, Positive Affect, and Well-Being Testing for Mediation Using Path Analysis (2009, background): “effective in mobilizing it when they experience stress ( Taylor & Brown, 1994 ).”
Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology (2014, background): “…Taylor and her collaborators argue that unrealistically optimistic beliefs about the future can protect people from About this Issue 289 illness (Taylor et al. 2000), The results of numerous studies of patients with lifethreatening diseases, such as AIDS, suggest that those who remain…”
Frequency, characteristics and functions of future‐oriented thoughts in daily life (2011, neutral): “As already mentioned, optimism also provides some advantages in terms of mental and physical health (MacLeod & Conway, 2007; Taylor & Brown, 1988; Taylor et al., 2000) and it is likely that the frequent occurrence of positive future-oriented thoughts in daily life contribute to these effects.”
Positive Organizational Scholarship (2007, neutral): “This type of meaningmaking is also positive in that it is associated with resourcefulness (psychological and physiological) that fosters effective coping during traumatic events or diseases (Taylor et al., 2000), and in the case of work organizations, may contribute to individual or collective flour”
Future thought and behaviour change (2012, background): “Such expectancy judgements refer to the likelihood that anticipated events or behaviours will or will not occur (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980; Bandura, 1977, 1997; Bandura & Locke, 2003; Carver & Scheier, 2009; Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010; Mischel, 1973; Seligman, 1991; Taylor et al., 2000).”
Academic optimistic bias: Implications for college student performance and well-being (2007, result): “Together, our findings suggest that academic optimistic bias is associated with enhanced scholastic performance and well-being among college students, and contribute to prior research on the benefits of optimistic expectations (e.g., Taylor & Brown, 1988, 1994; Taylor et al., 2000 ).”
Posttraumatic symptoms and growth of Kosovar war refugees: The influence of hope and cognitive coping (2007, background): “Positive psychologists have suggested that optimism can be illusory but can nevertheless protect health and well-being (Taylor & Brown, 1988 ; Taylor, Kemeny, Reed, Bower, & Gruenewald, 2000 ).”
Who succeeds in maintaining weight loss? A conceptual review of factors associated with weight loss maintenance and weight regain (2005, background): “Unrealistic optimism is known to be a common psychological mechanism that can be healthy and adaptive, and that can also promote better health behaviours (17).”