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Bibliographic Subjects » CORRELATES OF HAPPINESS » Personal correlates of happiness » Psychological characteristics » Personality » Personality traits » Optimism/Positivity

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CORRELATES OF HAPPINESS Personal correlates of happiness Psychological characteristics Personality Personality traits Optimism/Positivity
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Optimism/Positivity, negativism, cynical, rose colored
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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Konwicka, T. Homology of Predictions and Wishes.
Ornauer, H.;et al.,Eds.: "Images of the World 2000:A Comparative Ten Nation Study", Humanities Press, 1976, USA, 403 - 419 1976 Seligman, M.E.P. Learned Optimism.
A.A. Knopf, 1991, New York, USA 1991 Stassen, M.A.; Staats, S. Hope and Happiness: A Comparison of some Discrepancies.
Social Indicators Research, 1988, Vol. 20, 45 - 58 1988 Taylor, S.E. Positive Illusions, Creative Self-Deception and the Healthy Mind.
Basic Books, 1989, New York, USA 1989 Thomae, H. Erlebte Unveränderlichkeit von gesundheitlicher und ökonomischer Belastung. (Perceived Certainty of Health and Economic Stress: A Contribution to a Cognitive Theory of Adjustment to Aging).
Zeitschrift für Gerontologie, 1979, Vol. 12, 439 - 459 1979 Leedham, B.; Frist, W.H.; Meyerowitz, B.E.; Muirhead, J. Positive Expectations Predict Health after Heart Transplantation.
Health Psychology, 1995, Vol. 14, 74 - 79 1995 Aspinwall, L.G.; Taylor, S.E. Modeling Cognitive Adaptation: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Impact of Individual Differences and Coping of College Adjustment Performance.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1992, Vol. 63, 989 - 1003 1992 Segerstrom, S.C.; Fahey, J.L.; Kenemeny, M.E.; Taylor, S.E. Optimism is Associated with Mood, Coping, and Immune Change in Response to Stress.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998, Vol. 74, 1646 - 1655 1998 Chang, E.C. Dispositional Optimism and Primary and Secondary Appraisal of a Stressor: Controlling for Confounding Influences and Relations to Coping and Psychological and Physical Adjustment.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998, Vol.74, 1109 - 1120 1998 Khoo, S.A.; Bishop, G.D. Stress and Optimism: Relationships to Coping and Well-Being.
Psychologia, 1996, Vol. 39, 29 - 40 1996 Scheier, M.F.; Magovern, G.J.; Matthews, K.A.; Owens, J.F. Dispositional Optimism and Recovery from Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: The Beneficial Effects on Physical and Psychological Well-Being.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1989, Vol. 57, 1024 - 1040 1989 Wiseman, R. The Luck Factor.
Century, 2003, UK 2003 DeFátima-Perloiro, M. Optimism, Pessimism and Life Satisfaction in Portuguese Families.
Presentation, 2nd European Conference on Positive Psychology, 2004, Verbania, Pallanza, Italy 2004 Hornung, B. Was Uns Wirklich Glücklicher Macht. (What Really Makes us Happy).
Institut für Glückforschung, 2004, München, Germany 2004 Daukantaite, D.; Bergman, L.R. Childhood Roots of Woman's Subjective Well-Being. The Role of Optimism.
European Psychologist, 2005, Vol. 10, 287 - 297 2005 Diener, E.; Napa, C.K.; Oishi, S. Positivity and the Construction of Life Satisfaction Judgements: Global Happiness is not the Sum of its Parts.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2000, Vol. 1, 159 - 176. 2000 Adler, M.G.; Fagley, N.S. Appreciation: Individual Differences in Finding Value and Meaning as a Unique Predictor of Subjective Well-Being.
Journal of Personality, 2005, Vol. 73, 79 - 114 2005 Veenhoven, R. Findings on Happiness and Hope.
World Database of Happiness, Collection of Correlational Findings, Finding report H11, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Printout 2009, http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl. 2009 Steca, P.; Caprara, G.V.; Tramontano, C Developmental Pathways and Correlates of Positive Thinking in the Transition Adolescence to Early Adulthood.
Freire, T.;Ed.: "Understanding Positive Life Research and Practice on Positive Psychology", Climepsi, 2009, Lisabon, Portugal, 227 - 250 2009 Isaacowitz, D.M. Correlates of Well-Being in Adulthood and Old Age: A Tale of Two Optimism.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2005, Vol. 39, 224 - 244 2005 Werner, S. Subjective Well-being , Hope, and Needs of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness.
Psychiatry Research, 2012, Vol. 196, 214 - 219 2012 Daukantaite, D.; Zukauskiene, R. 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.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2012, Vol. 13, 1- 16 2012 Lightsey, O.R.; Gharghani, G.G.; Katz, A.M. Positive Automatic Cognitions Mediate the Relationship Between Personality and Trait Positive Affect.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2013, Vol.14, 115 - 134 2013 Marshall, G.N.; Kusulas, J.; Wortman, C.B. Distinguishing Optimism From Pessimism: Relations to Fundamental Dimensions of Mood and Personality.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1992, Vol. 62, 1067 - 1074 1992 Halama, P. Hope as a Mediator between Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction.
Studia Psychologica, 2010, Vol. 52, 309 - 314 2010 Gavrilov-Jerković, V.; Jovanović, V.; Zuljević, D. When Less is More: A Short Version of the Personal Optimism Scale and the Self-Efficacy Optimism Scale.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, Vol. 15, 455 - 474 2014 Cini, F.; Ellis, S.; Kruger, P.S. A Model of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Subjective Well-Being: The Experience of Overnight Visitors to a National Park.
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2013, Vol. 8, 45 - 61 2013 Chang, E.C.; Sanna, L.J; Yang, K.M. Optimism, Pessimism, Affectivity, and Psychological Adjustment in US and Korea: a Test of a Mediation Model.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2002, Vol. 34, 1195 - 1208 2002 Chipperfield, J.G. Incongruence between Health Perceptions and Health Problems: Implications for Survival among Seniors.
Journal of Aging and Health, 1993, Vol. 5, 475 - 496 1993 Ben-Zur, H. Loneliness, Optimism, and Well-Being Among Married, Divorced, and Widowed Individuals.
The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 2012, Vol. 146, 23 - 36 2012 Kapikiran, N.A. Positive and Negative Affectivity as Mediator and Moderator of the Relationship between Optimism and Life Satisfaction in Turkish University Students.
Social Indicators Research, 2012, Vol. 106, 333 - 345 2012 Lee, J.Y.; Im, G.S. Self-enhancing Bias in Personality, Subjective Happiness, and Perception of Life-events: A Replication in a Korean Aged Sample.
Aging & Mental Health, 2007, Vol. 11, 57 - 60 2007 Oberle, E.; Schonert-Reichl, K. A.; Zumbo, B.D. Life Satisfaction in Early Adolescence: Personal, Neighborhood, School, Family, and Peer Influences.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011, Vol. 40, 889 - 901 2011 Piper, A.T. Zukunftsangst! Fear of (and Hope for) the Future and its Impact on Life Satisfaction.
MPRA Working Paper, 2014, No. 59557, 1 - 28, Flensburg, Germany 2014 Rutledge, R.B.; Dayan, P.; Skandali, N. Dopaminergic Modulation of Decision Making and Subjective Well-Being.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2015, Vol. 35, 9811 - 9822 2015 Leung, B.W.; McBride, M.; Moneta, G.B. Think Positively and Feel Positively: Optimism and Life Satisfaction in Late Life.
International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2005, Vol. 61, 335 - 365 2005 Yalcin, I Social Support and Optimism as Predictors of Life Satisfaction of College Students.
International Journal of Advancement of Counseling, 2011, Vol. 33, 79 - 87 2011 Rollero, C.; Tartaglia, S. Preserving Life Satisfaction During the Economic Crisis. Which Factors can Help?
Psicologia Politica, 2009, Vol. 39, 75 - 87 2009 DeJuan, R.; Mochon, D.; Rojas, E. Expectations and Happiness: Evidence from Spain.
Journal of Social Research & Policy, 2014, Vol. 5, 101 - 114 2014 Alarcon, G. M.; Bowling, N.A.; Khazon, S. Great Expectations: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Optimism and Hope.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2013, Vol. 54, 821 - 827 2013 Bailey, T. C.; Eng, W.; Frisch, M.B. Hope and Optimism as related to Life Satisfaction.
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2007, Vol. 2, 168 - 175 2007 Gallagher, M.W.; Lopez, S.J. Positive Expectancies and Mental Health: Identifying the Unique Contributions of Hope and Optimism.
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2009, Vol. 4, 548 - 556 2009 He, F.; Cao, R.; Peng, J. The Impacts of Dispositional Optimism and Psychological Resilience on the Subjective Well-Being of Burn Patients: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis.
PLOS One, Open Access, 2013, Vol. 8, No. 82939, 1 - 6 2013 Busseri, M.A.; Choma, B.L.; Sadava, S.W. "As good as it gets" or "The best is yet to come"? How Optimists and Pessimists view their Past, Present, and Anticipated Future Life Satisfaction.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2009, Vol. 47, 352 - 356 2009 Busseri, M.A. How Dispositional Optimists and Pessimists evaluate their Past, Present and Anticipated Future Life Satisfaction: A Lifespan Approach.
European Journal of Personality, 2013, Vol. 27, 185 - 199 2013 Lai, J.C.; Evans, P.D.; NG, S.H. Optimism, Positive affectivity, and Salivary Cortisol.
British Journal of Health Psychology, 2005, Vol. 10, 467 - 484 2005 Jonker, C.S.; Koekemoer, E.; Nel, J.A. Exploring a Positive SWB Model in a Sample of University Students in South Africa.
Social Indicator Research, 2015, Vol. 121, 815 - 832 2015 Denovan, A; MacasKill, A. Stress and subjective well-being among first year UK undergraduate students
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, Vol. 18, 505 - 525 2017 Karademas, E.C. Positive and Negative Aspects of Well-Being: Common and Specific Predictors.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2007, 1 - 12 2007 Held, B.S. The Tyranny of the Positive Attitude in America: Observation and Speculation.
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2002, Vol. 58, 965 - 992 2002 Xu, Y.; Li, M.; Yu, Y. Positive Affect Promotes Well-being and Alleviates Depression: The mediating Effect o Attentional Bias.
Psychiatry Research, 2015, Vol 228, 482- 487 2015 Lauriola, M.; Iani, L. Personality, Positivity and Happiness: A Mediation Analysis Using a Bifactor Model
Journal of Happiness Studies , 2017, Vol 18, 1659-1682 2017 Sachs, J. Validation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in a Sample of Hong Kong University Students.
Psychologia, 2003, Vol. 46, 225 - 234 2003 Archer, T.; Adolfsson, B.; Karlsson, E. Affective Personality as Cognitive-Emotional Presymptom ProfilesRregulatory for Self-Reported Health Predispositions.
Neurotoxicity Research, 2008, Vol. 14, 21-44. 2008 Ariyabuddhipungs, V.; Li, J. Buddhist Good Karma of Giving, Optimism, and Happiness Among Thai Female Sex Workers.
Social Indicators Research, 2016, Vol. 127, 903 - 917. 2016 Caprara, M.; Caprara, G.V.; Digiunta, L. Association of Positivity with Health Problems in Old Age: Preliminary Findings from Spanish Middle Class Seniors
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, Vol. 18, 1339 - 1358 2017 Jibeen, T. Personality Traits and Subjective Well-Being: Moderating Role of Optimism in University Employees.
Social Indicators Research, 2014, Vol. 118, 157 - 172 2014 Ho, M.Y.; Cheung, F.M.; Cheung, S.F. The Role of Meaning in Life and Optimism in Promoting Well-Being
Personality and Individual Differences, 2010, Vol. 48, 658 - 663 2010 Babinčák, P.; Bacova, V. Life Satisfaction, Beliefs and Relations to Oneself and Others in University Students.
Studia Psychologica, 2008, Vol. 50, 79 - 94 2008 Margolis, R.; Lyubomirsky, S. Cognitive Outlooks and Well-Being.
NOBASCHOLAR, 2018, E. Diener, S. Oishi, & L. Tay (Eds.), Handbook of well-being, 1 - 18 2018 Chang, E.C.; Sanna, L.J Optimism, Pessimism, and Positive and Negative Affectivity in Middle-Aged Adults: A Test of a Cognitive-Affective Model of Psychological Adjustment.
Psychology and Aging, 2001. Vol. 16, 524 - 531 2001 Lai, L.C.H. Buddhism and Subjective Wellbeing: Do Self-Esteem, Optimism and Perceived Control Play a Role?
Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2015, Vol. 3, 1 - 7 2015 Fiorelli, J.A. Pretend Play, Coping, And Subjective Well-Being in Children: A Follow-Up Study
MsC Thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Psychology, 2011 2011 Karademas, E.C. Self-Efficacy, Social Support and Well-Being. The Mediating Role of Optimism
Personality and Individual Differences, 2006, Vol. 40, 1281 - 1290 2006 Cikrikci, O.; Erzen, E.; Yeniceri, L.A. Self-Esteem and Optimism as Mediators in the Relationship Between Test Anxiety and Life Satisfaction Among a School-Based Sample of Adolescents
Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2018, Vol. , 1-20 2018 Celik, C.B.; Odaci, H. The Relationship between Problematic Internet Use and Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions and Life Satisfaction in University Students
Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, Vol. 35, 505 - 508 2013 Dunn, J.; Breitbart, W.; Ng, S.k. Health-Related Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction in Colorectal Cancer Survivors: Trajectories of Adjustment
BioMed Central, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2013, 1 - 8 2013 Jung, J.Y.; Oh, K.S.; Oh, Y.H. Positive-Thinking and Life Satisfaction amongst Koreans
Yonsei Medical Journal, 2006, Vol. 48, 371 - 378 2007 Piper, A.T. Optimism, Pessimism and Life Satisfaction: an Empirical Investigation
Working Paper, SOEP, 2019, Nr. 1027, German Socio-Economic Panel Study, Berlin, Germany 2019 Rew, L.; Johnson, K.; Slesnick, N. Positive Attributes and Life Satisfaction in Homeless Youth
Children and Youth Services Review, 2019, Vol. 100, 1 - 8 2019 Arampatzi, E.; Burger, M.; Stavropoulos, S.; Tay, L. The Role of Positive Expectations for Resilience to Adverse -Events: Subjective Well‑Being Before, During and After the Greek Bailout Referendum
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, Vol., 1-32 2019 Bernardo, A.B.; Estrellado, A.F. Subjective Well-Being of Filipino Women who Experienced Intimate Partner Violence: A Person-Centered Analysis
International Journal Advice Counselling, 2017, Vol. 38, 360-376 2017 Chong, J.; Broadbent, E.; Stott, N.S. Children’s Perceptions of Their Cerebral Palsy and Their Impact on Life Satisfaction
Disability and Rehabilitation, 2012, Vol. 34, 2053 - 2060 2012 Greyling, T.; Fisher, B. Women's Optimism, The Gender Happiness Equalizer: A Case of South Africa
GLO Discussion Paper, 2020, No. 472, Global Labor Organization, Essen 2020 Marrero Quevedo, R.J.; Carballeira, M.; Hernandez-Cabrera, J.A. Does Humor Mediate the Relationship Between Positive Personality and Well‑Being? The Moderating Role of Gender and Health
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, Vol. 21, 1117 - 1144 2020 Baltacı, A.; Soykan, S.N.Y. Optimism, Happiness, Life Meaning and Life Satisfaction Levels of the Faculty of Divinity Students: A Multi-Sample Correlational Study
Spiritual Psychology and Counseling, 2020 Vol. 5, 167-184 2020 Chang, E.C.; Liu, J.; Yi, S. Coping Behaviors as Predictors of Hedonic Well‑Being in Asian Indians: Does Being Optimistic Still Make a Difference?
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, Vol. 21, 289 - 304 2020 Shinan-Altman, S.; Dror, M.; Levkovich, I. Are Daily Stressors Associated with Happiness in Old Age? The Contribution of Coping Resources
International Journal of Gerontology, 2020, Vol. 14, 293 - 297 2020 Alessandri, G.; Deiana, G.; Tisak, J; Vecchione, M. The Utility of Positive Orientation in Predicting Job Performance and Organisational Citizenship behaviors
Applied Psychology, 2012, Vol. 61, 669 - 698 2012 Tomlinson, R.M.; Keyfitz, L.; Lumley, M.N.; Rawana, J.S. Unique Contributions of Positive Schemas for Understanding Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction and Happiness
Journal of Happiness Studies, 201, Vol. 18, 1255 - 1274 2017 Sivis-Cetinkaya, R. Turkish College Students’ Subjective Wellbeing in Regard to Psychological Strengths and Demographic Variables: Implications for College Counseling
International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2012, Vol. 35, 317 - 330 2013