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Explanatory style is a psychological attribute that indicates how people explain to themselves why they experience a particular event, either positive or negative. Psychologists have identified three...
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Some of us may have a more optimistic explanatory style so that we do not blame ourselves 100% for things that go wrong and we realise there are other external influences on what happens.
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with an optimistic explanatory style, who explained bad events with external, ... Studies show that an optimistic explanatory style is linked with good ...
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Optimistic explanatory style and the perception of health problems. ... Those subjects with an optimistic explanatory style, who explained bad events with external, unstable, and specific causes, in particular saw themselves as less at risk (r = .30, p < .01). They also believed that they were more able to prevent these...
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Results from their study indicated that vocational teachers had an optimistic explanatory style. ... First, FACS teachers had an optimistic explanatory style as indicated by scores on the dimensions of positive events (CoPos), negative events (CoNeg), and all events (CPCN). An optimistic explanatory style is characterized...
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The results of this study indicated that secondary vocational teachers in Georgia had an optimistic explanatory style. Of the 6 program areas, business teachers emerged as the most optimistic based on their mean Composite Positive minus Composite Negative (CPCN) score.
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The fundamental hypothesis of this study is that possessing an optimistic explanatory style leads to greater task involvement and enhanced achievement levels in mathematics.
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BioInfoBank Library :: Adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease: the roles of negative affectivity and hostility in subjective versus objective health. Other experience with H. pylori therapy. ... Optimistic explanatory style and dispositional optimism in HIV-infected men.
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Students who scored higher on Pessimistic Explanatory Style also scored higher on Overall Irrational Thinking and on Low Frustration Tolerance than did those who were categorized as having an Optimistic Explanatory Style.
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Explanatory style is associated with optimism and pessimism. The term optimistic explanatory style is used to refer to explanations for bad events that are external, unstable and specific, and pessimistic explanatory style is used to refer to explanations for bad events that are internal, stable and global.
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