in this essay, development is viewed as a multidimensional concept, which encompasses economic, political, and politicaleconomic aspects. using this approach, the paper is a historical exploration of the relationship among economic, political, and distribution developments in indian society in a period of sixtyfour years (after india's independence until the end of 2005). the author attemp...

This research aims at examining computer anxiety of teacher trainees in the framework of personality variables of irrational beliefs, learned resourcefulness, optimism/pessimism and self-disclosure. The research was carried out by 690 teacher trainees. Data were collected through Computer Anxiety Scale, Irrational Belief Scale, Learned Resourcefulness Scale and Information Form. Data analysis w...

The relationship between school refusal behavior (SRB) profiles and personality traits has received little attention from investigators. Identifying the of students with attendance problems may improve understanding characteristics defining these students. aim this study was to identify different SRB analyze profiles, optimism/pessimism traits. School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised, Youth Lif...

The internal structure of the revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R, German version; M. F. Scheier, C. S. Carver, & M. W. Bridges, 1994) was analyzed in a sample of 46,133 participants who ranged in age from 18 years to 103 years. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that dispositional optimism, as measured by the LOT-R, is bidimensional, consisting of an Optimism and a Pessimism factor. Consiste...

In this paper we deal with the basic two-period consumption saving problem where the first and second period consumption utility, respectively v and u is assumed to be concave as usually. Considering the usual assumption of identity of u and v, we show that prudence is fully characterized by the convexity of u′ in the EU model. More interesting we prove that for the RDEU model, prudence is full...

This work suggests the estimation method developed in relation to the position of the robotic system (RS) operator, showing his degree of risk proneness. The base models are: Hurwitz pessimism/optimism criterion and decision trees. The problem is solved using the reverse setting: we estimate pessimism/optimism parameter of the operator (decision taker) by observing what decisions he makes when ...

Fifty-eight percent of respondents to a recent poll (http://especiales.elsalvador.com/2016/encuesta-2-aniosgestion-presidencial/)commissioned by Salvadoran newspaper El Diario de Hoy said they do not think the government's implementation of "extraordinary measures" to combat the gangs are producing good results. (See chart below) El Salvador (http://www.insightcrime.org/el-salvador-organizedcri...

Modelling and analysis are important tools in the development of safety critical real-time systems. The introduction of state-of-the-art analysis techniques in industry is however rather slow. One reason for this is the pessimism in models and analysis, e.g., schedulability analysis for realistic systems are typically based on simplifying assumptions which leads to pessimism that forces designe...

We have studied the relationship between optimism, pessimism and entrepreneurial attitudes among university undergraduate students (n = 206). We used the revised Life Orientation Test [1] as a measure of optimism and pessimism and we hypothesized that technological potential entrepreneurs are more optimistic and less pessimistic than non-potential entrepreneurs. Our results show a main effect o...

There has been very limited research on the use of self-worth protection strategies in the achievement context of school physical education (PE). Thus, this study aimed to examine some antecedents and consequences of defensive pessimism and selfhandicapping. The sample comprised 534 (females n = 275; males n = 259) British pupils recruited from two schools who responded to established questionn...