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      Person Variables and Health : Personality Predispositions and Acute Psychological States as Shared Determinants for Disease

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          Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies.

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              Dispositional optimism and physical well-being: the influence of generalized outcome expectancies on health.

              This article explores the implications that dispositional optimism holds for physical well-being. Research is reviewed that links optimism to a number of different positive health-relevant outcomes, ranging from the development of physical symptoms to recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery. Additional findings are described which suggest that these beneficial effects are partly due to differences between optimists and pessimists in the strategies that they use to cope with stress. A number of other potential mediators are also discussed, including some that are physiologic in nature. The article closes with a discussion of the relationships between our own theoretical account of the effects of optimism and several other conceptual approaches.
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                Journal
                Psychosomatic Medicine
                Psychosomatic Medicine
                Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
                0033-3174
                1995
                1995
                : 57
                : 3
                : 255-268
                Article
                10.1097/00006842-199505000-00007
                751e069e-7dde-4209-bb1f-6f61e013e3ec
                © 1995
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