ArticleJournal of research in personality2013
Optimism and Pessimism in Social Context: An Interpersonal Perspective on Resilience and Risk.
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- Applying the RISE Model of Resilience in Partners Post-Stroke: A Qualitative Analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Trial
- Serial Mediation: How Optimism Reduces and Pessimism Intensifies Chronic Low Back Pain Through Depression and Biological Aging.Biological research for nursing · 2026Article
- Analyzing latent categories of stress, anxiety, and depression in medical students: insights into their psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- How dispositional optimism-pessimism relates to early adolescents' emotional maladjustment during COVID-19? Moderating roles of knowledge about the disease and parent-child conflicts.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The relationship between optimism, MCI, and dementia among postmenopausal women.Aging & mental health · 2023Article
- Parental Optimism Improves Youth Psychological Well-Being: Family Cohesion and Youth Optimism as Serial Mediators.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Intimate Relationships and Coronary Heart Disease: Implications for Risk, Prevention, and Patient Management.Current cardiology reports · 2022Review
- The effect of abusive supervision variability on work-family conflict: The role of psychological detachment and optimism.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Optimism, pessimism, and health biomarkers in older couples.British journal of health psychology · 2020Article
- Mismatch in Spouses' Anger-Coping Response Styles and Risk of Early Mortality: A 32-Year Follow-Up Study.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Article
- Dispositional optimism and physical health: A long look back, a quick look forward.The American psychologist · 2018Review
- Behavioural medicine and gastrointestinal disorders: the promise of positive psychology.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2018Review
- Borderline Personality Features, Interpersonal Correlates, and Blood Pressure Response to Social Stressors: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk.Personality and individual differences · 2017Article
- Dispositional optimism.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2014Review
- Are people healthier if their partners are more optimistic? The dyadic effect of optimism on health among older adults.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2014Article
- Impact of Optimism on Cognitive Performance of People Living in Rural Area: Findings From a 20-Year Study in US Adults.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
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Abstract
Using the interpersonal perspective, we examined social correlates of dispositional optimism. In Study 1, optimism and pessimism were associated with warm-dominant and hostile-submissive interpersonal styles, respectively, across four samples, and had expected associations with social support and interpersonal stressors. In 300 married couples, Study 2 replicated these findings regarding interpersonal styles, using self-reports and spouse ratings. Optimism-pessimism also had significant actor and partner associations with marital quality. In Study 3 (120 couples), husbands' and wives' optimism predicted increases in their own marital adjustment over time, and husbands' optimism predicted increases in wives' marital adjustment. Thus, the interpersonal perspective is a useful integrative framework for examining social processes that could contribute to associations of optimism-pessimism with physical health and emotional adjustment.
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