Dispositional Optimism and Judgments of Future Life Events: Affective States as Moderators

Gherasim, Loredana Ruxandra; Măirean, Cornelia; Rusu, Andrei

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“…This was in contrast to our hypothesis that mood would strengthen the relationship between optimism and risk-taking. However, these results are similar to those from a study by Gherasim et al (2016) , which found that a positive affect weakened the relationship between dispositional optimism and judgments about the likelihood of future positive events. Positive moods have been shown to increase the consideration of alternative solutions and outcomes ( Politis and Houtz, 2015 ).…”

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Differences in Mood, Optimism, and Risk-Taking Behavior Between American and Chinese College Students

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Mood and optimism have been demonstrated to influence risk-taking decisions; however, the literature on mood, optimism, and decision-making is mixed and conducted primarily with western samples. This study sought to address this gap in the literature by examining the impact of mood and dispositional optimism on risk-taking and whether these associations differed between undergraduate students from the United States (N = 141) and the People’s Republic of China (N = 90). Both samples completed a dispositional optimism questionnaire and an autobiographical mood induction task. They were then tasked with choosing to complete the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices reasoning task on easy, medium, or hard difficulty for hypothetical money. Selecting harder difficulties was interpreted as more risk-taking due to a higher chance of failure. More positive mood and higher dispositional optimism were associated with decreased risk-taking, i.e., selecting easier puzzle difficulties, in the American sample but increased risk-taking decisions, i.e., selecting harder difficulties, in the Chinese sample (p < 0.05 for all). These findings suggest that the effect of mood and optimism on decision-making may differ by nationality and/or culture.

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“…Research has found that dispositional optimism may interact with mood to influence the perceived likelihood of future positive events of an individual ( Gherasim et al, 2016 ). This interaction may thus also influence the risk-taking tendencies of an individual.…”

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“…One study indicated that affective states did not moderate the association between dispositional optimism and judgements of negative future events (Kuipmer et al, 2009). The second study found that the associations between dispositional optimism and the judgements of future positive events, but not for negative events, were significantly weaker in intensity in the positive affective state condition, compared to the negative affective state or control conditions (Gherasim et al, 2016). Our study assessed whether the relationship between dispositional optimism and judgements of future events is moderated by affective states on an adolescent sample.…”

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“…The 24-item questionnaire The Judgement of Life Events Scale (JLE; Zelenski & Lasen, 2002), translated into Romanian by Gherasim et al (2016), was used to assess the likelihood of judgements of future positive and negative events. In this study we used only 9 positive events (e.g., "What are the chances that you would win the lottery if you played regularly?")…”

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“…Studies conducted on adult samples showed that the optimists display more positive life evaluations than pessimists and were less likely to expect negative events in the future, such as unsafe work practices, overweight or dental health problems (e.g., Fowler & Geers, 2015;Gherasim et al, 2016;OginskaBulik & Juczynski, 2001). Other studies found no association between dispositional optimism and judgements of negative events, such as perceiving the risk of heart attack, obesity or severe acute respiratory syndrome on samples of adults (e.g., Geers et al, 2013;Radcliffe & Klein, 2002) and undergraduate students (e.g., Ji, Zhang, Usborne, & Guan, 2004).…”

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Dispositional Optimism, Affective States and Judgements of Future Life Events

Diaconu‐Gherasim

Măirean²

2017

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This research examined the relationship between dispositional optimism and judgements of future life events, and whether this relationship is moderated by affective states. An adolescent sample (N = 139, 57.6 % girls) was recruited. After filling in the questionnaire for dispositional optimism, the participants were randomly assigned in the experimental conditions in order to induce negative affective states versus control condition. Finally, the participants completed the a ffective states and judgements of fu ture life events scales. The results indicated that dispositional optimism positively correlated with judgement of positive events, but not with judgements of nega tive events. We found evidence for a ffective state a s a modera tor; the relationship between dispositional optimism and judgements of future positive events was stronger in the control condition compa red to the negative a ffective state condition. T he implications of these findings for understanding the relation between personality factors and judgements about future events are discussed.

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Crosta

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Personality and Individual Differences

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Dispositional Optimism and Judgments of Future Life Events: Affective States as Moderators

Cited by 5 publications

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Differences in Mood, Optimism, and Risk-Taking Behavior Between American and Chinese College Students

Differences in Mood, Optimism, and Risk-Taking Behavior Between American and Chinese College Students

Dispositional Optimism, Affective States and Judgements of Future Life Events

“What's next?” Individual differences in expected repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic

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