Optimism and attributional style impact on the relationship between general insecurity and mental health

Yuan, Wenjie; Wang, Lei

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.005

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“…Moreover, the clinical group shows a "pessimistic" attribution bias as an important differential trait comparing to controls, with a great effect size. The finding agrees with some studies linking optimism to better mental health levels (Yuan & Wang, 2016). Within the clinical group, "pessimism" predicted more than 40% of the variance in depressive symptoms according to predictions of the Theory of Hopelessness of Depression (Haeffel et al, 2017).…”

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Attributional Styles and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia. Is the Learned Helplessness Model Suitable?

Monfort-Escrig

Pena-Garijo

2021

Clínica Y Salud

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Attributions and related biases are particularly relevant to the development and maintenance of positive symptoms in psychosis (Howes & Murray, 2014) and depressive symptoms in mood and psychotic disorders (Davidson et al., 2018). Some studies in psychosis show that the attributional style is probably a separate construct of social cognition since it minimally correlates with other domains (Buck et al., 2016). Bentall et al. (2001) differentiate two biases: a general tendency to make non-self-attributions, including people and circumstances, for positive events ("externalising bias") and a specific tendency to blame others for negative events ("personalising bias"). Individuals who usually tend to explain disturbing events in terms of external (non-self) causes may be particularly prone to develop delusional beliefs about such experiences (Langdon et al., 2013). On the other hand, several studies observed a higher tendency to attribute positive events (but not negative) to oneself (So et al., 2015), but other studies did not (Achim et al., 2016). Moreover, persecutory delusions caused by an externalising attributional bias maintain self-esteem preserved in persons with delusions (Murphy et al., 2018). By contrast, later research from the "defence model" of persecutory delusions predicts that people with this kind of delusions have lower selfesteem than people with depression and a greater externalising Clínica y Salud (2020) xx(x) xx-xx

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Attributional Styles and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia. Is the Learned Helplessness Model Suitable?

Monfort-Escrig

Pena-Garijo

2021

Clínica Y Salud

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“…In a study of Yuan and Wang (2016), they examined the relationship between general insecurity and general mental health, in which optimism acted as a mediator and attribution style acted as a moderator. It is found that general insecurity can be harmful to general mental health through damaging optimism, but using external attribution strategy can help to reduce the consuming effect of insecurity and thus maintains optimism and mental health.…”

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Trust in a viable real estate economy with disruption and blockchain

Veuger

2018

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Centre for Real Estate -in daily speaking 'CEJ' -is the new centralized real estate centre in the Danish public authority, Capital Region of Denmark. Since 1 January 2017, more than 700 employees have been part of the centre, which has the task of creating, operating and optimizing the buildings owned by the regional authority. The trusted FM partnerThe Capital Region is responsible of hospitals, mental health services, research, disability services, social services and solving environmental tasks. The building stock is approx. 2 million m 2 with a portfolio consisting of more than 750 single buildings at more than 70 locations. The strategic ambition in CEJ is to become the trusted partner for the regions core businesses and not as de facto the default FM organization. In this article we share our first experiences as inspiration to others who are considering a change process from decentral to central facilities management. The preparationsThe corporate management decided in 2015 that the preparations of a centre for real estate should take place in 2016 and 1 of January 2017 was set as the formal opening day. Mogens Kornbo started as CEO of CEJ the 1. March 2016 and during the spring, summer and fall the contours of CEJ started to settle. The centre should be a real estate and facilities management centre, the hospitals etc. should hand over responsibilities together with employees and budgets and a process was started to prepare and motivate the 720 employees who was about to change their organizational association and become the vast majority of the CEJ employees. An important part of the preparations was the constellation of the organizational structure. It consists of a CEO and deputy with representation in the corporate management, supported by administrative staff and 5 units of  System and processes  Planning and building projects  Operation and technique  Energy and environment  Logistics and supply chain The REFM scopeCEJ´s is set out to be a Real Estate FM (REFM) centre that unites ownership, investment and operational optimization in one and the same organization. The responsibilities are in general the physical environment and the technical services related to operation of buildings including: indoor and outdoor building maintenance, technical service, outdoor areas, fire and safety, indoor environment, waste handling parking and environment. In the future we might grow with other FM services, but currently cleaning, catering, receptions, guard etc. is not included in our responsibilities. These FM tasks remain for the time being in the core business organizations. Corporate economy, IKT and HR on are also not the responsibility of CEJ, as the region has other centres with this as their resort. 9The financial basisThe economic negotiations were challenging and they still are. Top management at the hospitals accepted or even supported the idea of a central real estate organization, but like in all other situations where resources are limited; there were at times hard negotiations about transfer...

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“…Studies by Peterson and several meta-analyses (Peterson, Villanova, & Raps, 1985;Sweeney et al, 1986;Hu, Zhang, & Yang, 2015) confirmed that a pessimistic attributional style for negative life outcomes is a reliable predictor of depression. Other studies revealed that a pessimistic attributional style for negative events is associated with anxiety (Lynd-Stevenson & Rigano, 1996;Ralph & Mineka, 1998), hostility (Boman, Smith, & Curtis, 2003), and neuroticism (Cheng & Furnham, 2001), as well as health issues (Peterson & Seligman, 1987;Yuan & Wang, 2016), and health complaints (Reilley, Geers, Lindsay, Deronde, & Dember, 2005). Studies of OAS-Positive have long been neglected, and Peterson would later conclude that this neglect of positive events was a regrettable mistake .…”

Section: Optimistic Attributional Style For Negative and Positive Eventsmentioning

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Optimistic Attributional Style as a Predictor of Well-Being: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Gratitude and Savoring the Moment

Grandchamp¹,

Гордеева²,

Sychev³

2021

Psych. Rus.

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Background. The construct of attributional style refers to the specific ways people explain events, both positive and negative. An optimistic attributional style (OAS) for negative events has been shown to be reliably associated with low rates of depression (Peterson et al., 1985; Sweeney et al., 1986; Hu et al., 2015). On the contrary, an optimistic attributional style for positive events is a separate phenomenon associated mainly with well-being, but these relationships remain underexplored. Objective. This study aimed to explore the predictive power of OAS-Positive, its relationships with subjective well-being, and possible personality mediators related to positive functioning. We hypothesized that the abilities to feel grateful and savor positive life events mediate the relationship between optimistic thinking about positive outcomes and subjective well-being. Design. A сross-sectional design was implemented. The participants were 271 adults from Moscow and Moscow Region (M age=32.42, SD=12.9). Results. The results of regression analysis showed that both life satisfaction and subjective happiness depended on gratitude, self-esteem, and dispositional optimism, but only happiness was predicted by savoring the moment. The results of structural equation modeling were consistent with the hypothesis since the structural model revealed that the effects of OAS-Positive on subjective well-being were fully mediated by gratitude and savoring the moment, as well as self-esteem and dispositional optimism. The mediated effects of OAS-Negative through self-esteem and gratitude were inconsistent, and its total indirect effect on subjective well-being was not significant. Conclusion. This research provides preliminary evidence that optimistic thinking about positive life events promotes subjective well-being through a system of positive psychological traits and attitudes which include gratitude and savoring the moment.

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Optimism and attributional style impact on the relationship between general insecurity and mental health

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Attributional Styles and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia. Is the Learned Helplessness Model Suitable?

Attributional Styles and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia. Is the Learned Helplessness Model Suitable?

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