Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2010
Dispositional optimism, goals, and engagement in health treatment programs.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Contributions of Hope in physical activity and exercise goal attainment in college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Dispositional optimism and optimistic bias: Associations with cessation motivation, confidence, and attitudes.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2022Article
- The virtue of optimistic realism - expectation fulfillment predicts patient-rated global effectiveness of total hip arthroplasty.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- Optimism and opioid misuse among justice-involved children.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Goal Adjustment and Well-Being: The Role of Optimism in Patients with Chronic Pain.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Article
- Optimism's Explicative Role for Chronic Diseases.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
- Dispositional optimism.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2014Review
- The role of goal representations, cultural identity, and dispositional optimism in the depressive experiences of American Indian youth from a Northern Plains tribe.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2014Article
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Abstract
It has been proposed that dispositional optimism is positively associated with treatment program engagement. However, conflicting evidence exists regarding this relationship. We examined whether the importance of a treatment goal moderates this association. In Study 1 (N = 95), individuals high in optimism were more interested in attending a nutrition education program when the importance of nutrition was first highlighted. In Study 2 (N = 91), participants were given the opportunity to attend psychotherapy to address an academic problem. Dispositional optimism was associated with greater treatment attendance when participants rated their problems as high, relative to low, in importance. It is concluded that the personality variable of dispositional optimism does relate to interest and attendance in treatment, however, treatment goal importance moderates these relationships. It is recommended that practitioners and researchers take an interactionist approach when assessing the role of personality and situational factors in treatment program interest and attendance.
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