Dispositional Optimism and Coping: A Meta-Analytic Review

By Lise Solberg Nes, S. Segerstrom. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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‘It was Hard, But it was Good’: a qualitative exploration of stress-related growth in Division I intercollegiate athletes (2012, background): “Optimists may be more likely to appraise stressful events as challenges, and engage in approach coping strategies such as positive reappraisal (Tedeschi and Calhoun 2004, Nes and Segerstrom 2006).”
The development of coping. (2007, neutral): “…2003; Clarke, 2006; Compas, Connor-Smith, Saltzman, Thomsen, & Wadsworth, 2001; Compas, Orosan, & Grant, 1993; Decker, 2006; Frydenberg, 1997; Nes & Segerstrom, 2006; Penley et al., 2002; Petticrew, Bell, & Hunter, 2002; Seiffge-Krenke, 2011; Taylor & Stanton, 2007; Wolchik & Sandler, 1997).”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “Finally, research on optimism suggests that optimistic thinking prompts people to engage in active and eff ective coping (Nes & Segerstrom, 2006 ; Scheier, Weintraub, & Carver, 1986 ).”
State or trait: effects of state optimism on job-related outcomes (2009, background): “Furthermore, in a recent meta analysis, Nes and Segerstrom (2006) found that optimists adjust their coping strategies to meet the demands of the stressors at hand.”
Counterfactual thinking, persistence, and performance: A test of the Reflection and Evaluation Model (2008, background): “1 Although the REM predicts that negative affect should engender greater persistence, the optimism literature (e.g., Nes & Segerstrom, 2006) suggests that not being overcome by negative affect is better for persistence, particularly in the long term (e.g., not dropping out of school).”
Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience (2017, background): “This research has found that the whilst some personality factors such as optimism vary in their importance to coping across cultures (Nes and Segerstrom 2006), others such as generosity appear to have a universally positive impact upon happiness (Aknin et al.”
Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes (2021, background): “Optimism is positively related to persistence at tasks related to attainment of important goals (Geers et al., 2009) and to enthusiasm for engaging in such tasks (Solberg Nes & Segerstrom, 2006).”
Unemployment and Psychological Distress among Young People during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Psychological Resources and Risk Factors (2020, background): “Accordingly, in their meta-analysis, Solberg Nes and Segerstrom [47] concluded that optimists switch between problem– and emotion-focused coping, depending on the stressor’s controllability.”
Exploring coping and optimism as predictors of academic burnout and performance among university students (2019, background): “Solberg Nes and Segerstrom (2006) argued that active and adaptive coping was positively related to optimism, which contributes to better adjustment.”
Managing the Transition: The Role of Optimism and Self-Efficacy for First-Year Australian University Students (2014, background): “The styles of coping elicited by stressful events are one of the important individual differences closely related to adaptation (Nes & Segerstrom, 2006).”