BACKGROUND Despite the growth in knowledge about coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors, and the advances made in preventing and treating them, the incidence of CHD is still notably quite high. Research has concentrated on the physiological factors that present risks for CHD, but there is an increasing amount of evidence for the connection of mental health, personal traits and CHD. Data on t...

ings quite a remarkable finding: that the new Optimism-Pessimism scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) predicts no less a dependent variable than death itself. The finding is unusually important for 2 reasons: First, the obvious one is predicting a “hard” measure like mortality from a “mere” paper-andpencil psychological construct. The second is more subtle, and it com...

This research aims at combined and relative effect levels on anxiety of: (1) perceived risk, knowledge, optimism, pessimism, and social trust; and (2) four sub-variables of social trust among inhabitants concerning living on heavy metal contaminated soil. On the basis of survey data from 499 Chinese respondents, results suggest that perceived risk, pessimism, optimism, and social trust have ind...

Intuitionistic fuzzy sets are suitable for capturing imprecise or uncertain decision information in multiple criteria decision analysis. In addition, optimism and pessimism generally affect the manner in which subjective judgments are construed. This paper proposes an outranking model, a QUALIFLEX method, for relating optimism and pessimism within the intuitionistic fuzzy decision environment. ...

Two studies examined motivational influences on and correlates of defensive pessimism and self-handicapping and investigated the relationship between these two cognitive strategies and performance attainment. The findings indicated that defensive pessimism and self-handicapping have similar motivational profiles, with the primary difference being that self-handicapping represents the absence of...

Abstract We explored hindsight bias and retroactive pessimism related to the occupation of Sofia University in 2013–2014, using a memory design. found partial evidence for predictions whether would achieve its goal (the government's resignation) but not specific events occupation, which were deemed unlikely from start later perceived have occurred. did find pessimism: Hindsight indices predicti...

The current study examined the relationships between perceived emotional intelligence (PEI) (measured by Trait-Meta Mood Scale, TMMS), dispositional optimism/pessimism and psychological adjustment (perceived stress and life satisfaction) in a sample of 498 adolescents (202 males and 296 females). In addition, the present research investigated the extent to which dimensions of PEI predicted vari...