The future of optimism.

By Christopher Peterson. American Psychologist, 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Psychological resilience in sport performers: a review of stressors and protective factors (2014, background): “, Peterson, C., & Famose, J.-P. (2003). Explanatory style and resilience after sports fail-”
The Interactive Effects of Psychological Capital and Organizational Identity on Employee Organizational Citizenship and Deviance Behaviors (2010, background): “This realistic optimism (Peterson, 2000) factors in the capabilities of the perceiver and is therefore grounded in nature.”
Hope Theory, Measurements, and Applications to School Psychology. (2003, background): “…achievement motivation, flow, goal setting, mindfulness, optimism, optimistic explanatory style, problem solving, resiliency, self-efficacy, self-esteem, Type A behavior pattern, etc.), see Magaletta and Oliver (1999), Peterson (2000), Snyder, (1994, 2002), and Snyder, Rand, and Sigmon (2002).”
Academic optimism and community engagement in urban schools (2011, background): “[…] a mood or attitude associated with an expectation about the social or material future – one that evaluator regards as socially desirable, to his [or her] advantage, or for his [or her] pleasure (as cited in Peterson (2000)”
The Strength-Based Counseling Model (2006, background): “The strength-based model proposes that by identifying and focusing on a set of strengths that buffers at-risk individuals against mental disorder, we do effective prevention work (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979; Peterson, 2000; Seligman et al., 1995).”
Desistance from Crime and Explanatory Style (2004, methodology): “entirely to one’s own behavioral, physical, or mental characteristics (see Peterson et al., 1991, p. 387). The stability dimension (see Table 2) is intended to reflect the persistence or chronicity of an event’s cause (not the event itself). Raters were trained to take four characteristics of explan”
Unlocking the mask: a look at the process by which authentic leaders impact follower attitudes and behaviors (2004, positive): “…of the adaptive attributional styles of people who exhibit “realistic” optimism, they are more likely to remain committed, satisfied, engaged, and feel empowered, and hence achieve superior performance and engage in fewer withdrawal behaviors (Peterson, 2000, Schneider, 2001 and Seligman, 1998).”
Not so Above Average After All: When People Believe They are Worse than Average and its Implications for Theories of Bias in Social Comparison (2007, neutral): “Likewise, Peterson (2000) concluded that “Apparently, in our minds, we are all children of Lake Wobegon, all of whom are above average” (p. 45).”