Measuring optimism in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese with the revised Life Orientation Test

By Julian C. L. Lai, Xiao-dong Yue. 2000

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Validation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) in Taiwanese Undergraduate Students (2009, methodology): “Previous studies indicated that the LOT-R is reliable and valid in the Chinese-speaking population ( Lai and Yue 2000; Lai et al. 1998).”
Optimism and Subjective Well-Being: Affectivity Plays a Secondary Role in the Relationship Between Optimism and Global Life Satisfaction in the Middle-Aged Women. Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Findings (2012, result): “That optimism tends to be lower in collectivistic countries and in the societies with higher levels of societal level anxiety are the hypotheses that have been tested and supported in some of the studies (Chang 1996; Lai and Yue 2000).”
Dimensionality of the Revised Life Orientation Test and the status of filler items (2003, methodology): “Concerning the LOT-R, Creed, Patton, and Bartrum (2002), Lai and Yue (2000) , and Sultan and Bureau (1999) also provided evidence for a 2CF model.”
Review of Life Satisfaction Measures for Adolescents (2000, result): “…similar findings regarding the unique factor structure of negatively keyed items have been obtained from other wellbeing instruments (e.g., Lai, 1994; Lai & Yue, 2000) and may be due to students misinterpreting the negatively keyed questions (Marsh & McDonald-Holmes, 1990; Schmitt & Stults, 1985).”