ArticleThe journal of positive psychology2019
Does timeframe adjustment of the Life Orientation Test-Revised assess optimism as a state?: Data from the PEACE-III trial in patients with heart disease.
Article in The journal of positive psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Use of Digital Peer Support for Employee Well-Being: Retrospective Analysis Across Five Large Employers.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Early-Pregnancy Resilience Characteristics before versus during the COVID-19 Pandemic.American journal of perinatology · 2024Article
- A secondary analysis examining the performance of the State Optimism Measure (SOM) compared to the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) in measuring optimism over time.Psychology & health · 2024Article
- Temporal stability of optimism and pessimism (LOT-R) over 6 years in the general population.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Early pregnancy dispositional optimism and pregnancy outcomes among nulliparous people.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2023Article
- Dispositional Optimism, Mode of Delivery, and Perceived Labor Control among Recently Delivered Parturients.American journal of perinatology · 2023Observational
- Assessing state optimism in cardiac patients: A comparison of two validated measures in three prospective cohorts.General hospital psychiatryArticle
- Development of the State Optimism Measure.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
Optimism is prospectively associated with superior health outcomes in cardiac patients, making it an attractive target for well-being interventions in this population. However, optimism measured by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) has largely been considered a static, dispositional construct. Among 125 patients with a recent acute coronary syndrome who received a positive psychology intervention, we assessed the properties of a modified LOT-R that changed the timeframe of items from general dispositional statements to queries about 'right now.' We aimed to learn whether this modified LOT-R was more dynamic than the original LOT-R via administration of both instruments at three timepoints over the 16-week study period. Contrary to our hypothesis, this modified LOT-R showed no greater change in mean score or intra-individual variance than the original LOT-R over 16 weeks. This suggests that simply changing the timeframe of the LOT-R may not facilitate assessment of more state-like optimism in medical patients.
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