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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