This article builds on scholarship that understands climate change not only as a geophysical phenomenon, but also complex idea. It argues for historicised analysis of what it terms “climate pessimism”: the belief catastrophic global heating cannot be prevented. Focusing especially nonfictional texts by Jonathan Franzen and Roy Scranton, suggests pessimism draws Western intellectual tradition ta...

abstract aim and background: the purpose of the present study was to investigate the factorial structure, reliability and divergent and convergent validity of the extended life orientation test- persian version (elot-p). methods and materials: first, elot was translated to persian language. then by using the back-translation procedure, the gaps between the translated version and the original ve...

Computer competence is poorly conceptualized and inconsistently measured. This study clarifies computer competence and examines its relationship with anxiety, affect, and pessimism, along with self-efficacy and previous experience. Using a survey of 610 end users, the strengths of anxiety, affect (positive), pessimism, self-efficacy, and previous experience were compared for nine different comp...

This longitudinal study investigates whether anhedonia and pessimistic attributional style represent a clinical state or a trait in hospitalized depressed adolescents. 81 consecutive adolescent inpatients were screened with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the clinician-rated Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) criteria sheet. 51 patients with BDI score ≥10 and/or ≥4 symptoms on MDD criteria...

Using the interpersonal perspective, we examined social correlates of dispositional optimism. In Study 1, optimism and pessimism were associated with warm-dominant and hostile-submissive interpersonal styles, respectively, across four samples, and had expected associations with social support and interpersonal stressors. In 300 married couples, Study 2 replicated these findings regarding interp...