Optimism, pessimism, and self-regulation.

By C. Carver, M. Scheier. 2001

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The benefits of frequent positive affect: does happiness lead to success? (2005, neutral): “Optimism (defined as attributional style, Seligman, 1991, or as general positive expectancy, Carver & Scheier, 2001), sense of coherence (Antonovsky, 1988, 1993), hope (Snyder, 2000), and hardiness (Maddi & Kobasa, 1991) all refer to general traits that are correlated with happiness and promote…”
In search of the unique aspects of hope: Pinning our hopes on positive emotions, future-oriented thinking, hard times, and other people (2002, result): “The result of this exercise was that most (if not all) of the findings attributed to hope have also been found for optimism (see Aspinwall, Richter, & Hoffman, 2001; Carver & Scheier, 2001; Chang, 2001, for reviews).”
Impact of positive psychological capital on employee well-being over time. (2010, background): “Many psychological resources have been studied in their dispositional as opposed to state-like form (e.g., dispositional optimism, see Carver & Scheier, 2001).”
Life satisfaction among European American, African American, Chinese American, Mexican American, and Dominican American adolescents (2004, background): “Likewise, expectancy-value theories stipulate that when valued goals are viewed as worthwhile, they are likely to be pursued and, if attained, will lead to substantial satisfaction (Carver & Scheier, 2001).”
Developing autonomous learning in first year university students using perspectives from positive psychology (2013, neutral): “Optimism affects the way that individuals approach problems and challenges and predicts how well they then cope (Carver and Scheier 2001).”
Optimism and Attributional Retraining: Longitudinal Effects on Academic Achievement, Test Anxiety, and Voluntary Course Withdrawal in College Students1 (2004, background): “Dispositional Optimism As a concept, optimism has its origins in a form of folk wisdom that concerns whether people expect good (or conversely bad) things to happen to them (Carver & Scheier, 2000).”
Future orientation in times of threat and challenge: How resilient adolescents construct their future (2008, background): “…to invest in domain specific future thinking: the value of expected behavior outcomes, the subjective appraisal of their attainability (expectance) (Carver & Scheier, 2001; Eccles & Wigfield, 1995), and internal control over the fulfillment of personal hopes, plans and goals (Rotter, 1966;…”
Does Perceived Emotional Intelligence and Optimism/pessimism Predict Psychological Well-being? (2011, background): “Optimism refers to the tendency to believe that, in the future, positive results or success will occur, while its opposite, pessimism, alludes to the belief that in the future adverse or negative results will occur (Avia and Vázquez 1999; Carver and Scheier 2001; Chang 2001; Scheier et al. 2001).”
Defining place attachment: A tripartite organizing framework (2010, background): “Selfregulation is the process in which current behavior is compared to one’s greater goals and standards in order to evaluate progress towards the goal (Carver & Scheier, 2001).”
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, background): “Besides that, contrary to the conclusions by Chang and Sanna (2001) that NA mediates the relationship between negative psychological outcome expectancies and negative psychological outcome in adulthood, Daukantaite and Bergman (2005).”
The Career Futures Inventory: A Measure of Career-Related Adaptability and Optimism (2005, background): “Carver and Scheier (2001) also theorized that pessimistic individuals might be more likely to disengage effort while continuing commitment toward a goal.”
Positive Thinking in Coping with Stress and Health outcomes: Literature Review (2010, background): “Optimism (defined as attributional style, Seligman, 1991, or as general positive expectancy , Carver & Scheier, 1991, 2001), extraversion (McCrae & Costa, 1986), sense of coherence ( Antonovsky, !”
The Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Education Program on Pre- and Early Adolescents’ Well-Being and Social and Emotional Competence (2010, background): “1986), to predict positive outcomes after adverse events (Carver and Scheier 2002) and peer acceptance in early adolescents (Oberle et al.”