Optimism, coping, and health: assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies.

By M. Scheier, C. Carver. Health Psychology, 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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The role of meaning in life and optimism in promoting well-being (2010, background): “As proposed by Scheier and Carver (1993), optimists may use more constructive coping strategies, while pessimists rely on more maladaptive approaches that render them more vulnerable to psychological distress.”
Psychological resources, positive illusions, and health. (2000, methodology): “As part of Kemeny et al.'s (1994) psychosocial substudy with the MACS, these men completed an extensive questionnaire assessing their self-reported health status, psychological adjustment, psychological responses to HIV (items based on Folkman & Lazarus's, 1980, Ways of Coping measure), and a number”
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (2002, methodology): “Previous researchers have suggested that the LOT is a reliable indicator of optimism (Cronbach’s α = .78–.82; Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) and that dispositional optimism predicts more persistent exercise behavior patterns (Hamid, 1990; Kavussanu & McAuley, 1995).”
Dynamic risk and protective factors (2016, background): “Scheier and Carver (1985) present optimism as an inherent and stable human characteristic that helps individuals facedwith challenging situations by creating the expectation that desired goals are attainable.”
Impulse buying: the role of affect, social influence, and subjective wellbeing (2008, background): “Considering the theoretical links between subjective well-being and other positive beliefs (Scheier and Carver, 1985; Taylor and Brown, 1988), it is not surprising that subjective wellbeing is positively associated with optimism (Chang, 1998) and selfesteem (Lucas et al.”
Individual Entrepreneurial Intent: Construct Clarification and Development of an Internationally Reliable Metric (2009, methodology): “A way to reduce priming effects used in psychometric scales (see Scheier & Carver, 1985) is to introduce distracter or filler items that can help obscure and mask the measurement construct by acting as red herrings.”
The future of optimism. (2000, background): “On the face of it, the dispositional optimism measure of Scheier and Carver (1985) and the hope measure of Snyder et al. (1996) tap big optimism because they ask people to respond to generalizations about the future.”
Hope Theory, Measurements, and Applications to School Psychology. (2003, background): “Whereas other positive psychology constructs such as goal theory (Covington, 2000; see also Dweck, 1999), optimism (Scheier & Carver, 1985), self-efficacy (Bandura, 1982), and problem solving (Heppner & Petersen, 1982) give differentially weighted emphases to the goal itself or to the…”
Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation (2002, methodology): “Nor is the resource-linkage concept necessarily inconsistent with theories of key resources (Bandura, 1997; Scheier & Carver, 1985, 1992).”