Pessimistic and Optimistic Personalities
Pessimistic and optimistic personalities are opposite personalities. Someone who has a pessimistic personality looks at the negative side of an issue. A pessimistic person will see a cup as half empty. Someone with an optimistic personality looks at a situation from the positive side. An optimistic person will see the cup as half full. Looking at life and it's situations from an optimistic view point will make things easier to handle and will help you to enjoy your life. Life is what you make it and the more optimistic you are about every situation you are dealt the better off everyone around you will be.
Posted by vickihope on 8/26/2009
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Search another word or see pessimistic on Dictionary ... Optimistic attitude ... confident, optimistic, trusting...
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Are you an optimist? ... Optimistic or Pessimistic? Test Yourself! ... Your attributional or explanatory style is what determines whether you're an optimistic or a pessimistic thinker, which imacts your health, longevity, stress level, success, and overall wellbeing. So are you an optimist or a pessimist?
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An optimistic attitude benefits not only your mental health, but your physical well-being as well ... According to our stats, the majority who took this test fell in the mid-range - they're optimistic, but realistic as well. Find out whether your glass is half-full or half-empty!
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Robinson-Whelan, S., Kim, C., MacCallum, R. C., & Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K. (1997). Distinguishing optimism from pessimism in older adults: Is it more important to be optimistic or not to be pessimistic? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1345-1353.
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S.M. Spencer and J.K. Norem , Reflection and distraction: Defensive pessimism, strategic optimism, and performance. Personality and Social Psychology ...
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expressly optimistic or pessimistic. In addition to broadening the scope of personality constructs to be investigated,. Experiment 2 employs a different ...
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Distinguishing optimism from pessimism: Relations to fundamental dimensions of mood and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, ...
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To make matters more complicated, researchers have written about optimistic and pessimistic explanatory styles (Peterson & Seligman, 1987), optimistic biases or illusions (Taylor & Brown, 1988), unrealistic optimism (Weinstein;
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There are no "optimistic" or "pessimistic" personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts. The choices we as humans make for our thinking either motivate us or they do not.
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William Arthur Ward ... The pessimist finds fault; The optimist discovers a remedy. ... The pessimist seeks sympathy; The optimist spreads cheer.
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