The classic, well-cited study by Marshall et al. (1992) demonstrated that optimism correlates stronger with extraversion than does pessimism and pessimism correlates stronger with neuroticism than does optimism, and these results lent support to their claim that optimism and pessimism are two separate constructs. However, we argued that their results are likely the outcome of scale artefact cau...

This study aimed to measure the unrealistic optimism of two samples vaccinated and not with Cov-19 virus. The researcher used a (researcher’s construct), where current at existence among an arithmetic mean (94.7347) standard deviation (14.5068) presence unvaccinated (92.7721) (11.80844). Statistically significant differences were also found, results showed statistically between males females, u...

Dispositional optimism is an important product of human evolution. This individual difference variable plays a core role in human experience. Dispositional optimism is beneficial to physical and psychological wellbeing. Previous task-related neuroimaging studies on dispositional optimism were limited by small sample sizes, and did not examine individual differences in dispositional optimism rel...

This study explored prospectively the effects of dispositional and situational optimism on mood (N = 90) and immune changes (N = 50) among law students in their first semester of study. Optimism was associated with better mood, higher numbers of helper T cells, and higher natural killer cell cytotoxicity. Avoidance coping partially accounted for the relationship between optimism and mood. Among...

background and objectives: spirituality has a positive relationship with general health and as a strong force binds different aspects of an individual’s life to confront his tense situations. quality of life and optimism can be influenced by spiritual, psychological, and occupational factors. the goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual health and quality of life...