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Seeing the glass half full: A review of the causes and consequences of optimism
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A review of the main findings from this body of research can be found in this paper, where optimism is associated with higher levels of subjective well-being, better health, and more success.About:
This article is published in Pratiques Psychologiques.The article was published on 2012-06-01. It has received 144 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Optimism & Pessimism.read more
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Mindfulness at Work: Positive Affect, Hope, and Optimism Mediate the Relationship Between Dispositional Mindfulness, Work Engagement, and Well-Being
Peter Malinowski,Hui Jia Lim +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between dispositional mindfulness, work engagement, and well-being in 299 adults in full-time employment and found that self-reported mindfulness predicts work engagement and general wellbeing.
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Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare professionals
Angela Kunzler,Isabella Helmreich,Andrea Chmitorz,Jochem König,Harald Binder,Michèle Wessa,Michèle Wessa,Klaus Lieb,Klaus Lieb +8 more
TL;DR: At post-intervention, very-low certainty evidence indicated that, compared to controls, healthcare professionals receiving resilience training may report higher levels of resilience, and there was little or no evidence of any effect of resilience training on anxiety or stress perception.
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Underlying construct of empathy, optimism, and burnout in medical students.
TL;DR: Results confirmed that an association exists between empathy in the context of patient care and personality characteristics that are conducive to relationship building, and considered to be “positive personality attributes,” as opposed to personality traits that are considered as “negative personality attributes” that are detrimental to interpersonal relationships.
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Psychological interventions for resilience enhancement in adults
Isabella Helmreich,Angela Kunzler,Andrea Chmitorz,Jochem König,Harald Binder,Michèle Wessa,Klaus Lieb +6 more
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Enhancing Family Resilience Through Family Narrative Co-construction
William R. Saltzman,Robert S. Pynoos,Patricia Lester,Christopher M. Layne,William R. Beardslee +4 more
TL;DR: Family-based narrative approaches provide a structured opportunity to elicit parents’ and children’s individual narratives, assemble divergent storylines into a shared family narrative, and enhance members’ capacity to make meaning of stressful experiences and adopt beliefs that support adaptation and growth.
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Assessing Coping Strategies: A Theoretically Based Approach
TL;DR: A multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress was developed and an initial examination of associations between dispositional and situational coping tendencies was allowed.
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Cognitive Therapy of Depression
Steven D. Hollon,Aaron T. Beck +1 more
TL;DR: Hollon and Shaw as discussed by the authors discuss the role of emotions in Cognitive Therapy and discuss the integration of homework into Cognitive Therapy, and discuss problems related to Termination and Relapse.
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Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation
TL;DR: According to the reformulation, once people perceive noncontingency, they attribute their helplessness to a cause and this cause can be stable or unstable, global or specific, and internal or external.
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Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): a reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test
TL;DR: Examination of the scale on somewhat different grounds, however, does suggest that future applications can benefit from its revision, and a minor modification to the Life Orientation Test is described, along with data bearing on the revised scale's psychometric properties.