How do optimism and hope develop in young people? How can they be promoted? This
article reviews research on the development of optimism and hope and interventions …

Основным содержанием диссертационного исследования является разработанная
автором интефативная структурно-процессуальная модель мотивации учебной …

Describes the explanatory style construct of optimism, presents some of the major research
findings from this literature, and discusses the theoretical relationship of explanatory style to …

In the 2nd edition of his book, Fear and Courage, Jack Rachman remarked on the scarcity of
research on human strengths. While journal articles on anxiety and fear were numerous …

An increasing number of legal and policy issues are turning on accurate empirical
information. A few examples will illustrate the point. In Exxon Shipping v. Baker, 554 US 471 …

Control and efficacy are ideally suited as “bridges” or linking constructs for social scientists
working at different levels of analysis. Control and efficacy depend on the fit between …

In a country where the depression rate is ten times higher today than it was in 1960,'lawyers
sit at the unenviable zenith of depressed professionals. Of all professionals in the United …

As to being happy, I fear that happiness isn't in my line. Perhaps the happy days that
Roosevelt promises will come to me along with others, but I fear that all trouble is in the …

Optimistic attributional style has been shown to be reliably associated with high well-being
and low depression and (Hu et al., Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 34 (4): 304 …

COMMENTARIES psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000) and in the study of
human strengths (McCullough & Snyder, 2000). The sheer number of hope-related studies …