This overview is an attempt to explore the “optimism” concept and its relations with mental health, physical health, coping, quality of life and adaptation of ...

As the main theme of this article is optimism and pessimism as experiential phenomena, whether they are expressed briefly as a mood, a temporary state of mind, ...

Feb 17, 2022 · The relationship between optimism and mental disorders has been studied to a lower extent than that between optimism and physical disorders.

Feb 1, 2010 · This section considers another path to differences in well-being: differences in coping. The ways in which optimists and pessimists differ in ...

Oct 19, 2006 · Dispositional optimism may be associated with growth of social and status resources by virtue of optimists' greater persistence and better ...

Jun 29, 2015 · Increases in optimism over a four-year period were associated with improvements in self-rated health and fewer chronic illnesses over the same ...

[PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] This article is a good, comprehensive review of the beneficial effects of optimism on well-being and health. 10.

Feb 1, 2022 · Positive psychology studies adaptation to adversity and aims to identify factors that favour good psychological adjustment, as well as physical ...