7886172

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rdf:type	pubmed:Citation
lifeskim:mentions	umls-concept:C0022885, umls-concept:C0029266, umls-concept:C0032863, umls-concept:C0039593, umls-concept:C0376558, umls-concept:C0443199, umls-concept:C0681890, umls-concept:C1551338
pubmed:issue	3 Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated	1995-4-13
pubmed:abstractText	A self-report measure of dispositional optimism, the Life Orientation Test, was administered to a group of 202 Hong Kong undergraduates. Consistent with prior findings, factor analysis yielded a two-factor solution with all positively worded items loaded on the first factor and all the negatively worded items loaded on the second. Prediction of physical symptom reports from scores on the two subscales was then tested with 85 subjects randomly selected from the original sample. Only the complete test and the subscale defined by the positively phrased items predicted symptom levels concurrently as well as prospectively over 3 wk. The negative subscale suggested by previous research as tapping pessimism rather than dispositional optimism showed no significant correlation with symptom levels. Moreover, when scores of the positive rather than the negative subscale were controlled, the significant correlation between scores on the Life Orientation Test and symptom reports was eliminated. These findings suggested a multidimensional view of the test and that the positive subscale may be sufficient to measure optimism validly. Implications of these for the personality dimensions of positive versus negative affectivity are also discussed.
pubmed:language	eng
pubmed:journal	http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/journal/0376475
pubmed:citationSubset	IM
pubmed:status	MEDLINE
pubmed:month	Dec
pubmed:issn	0033-2941
pubmed:author	pubmed-author:LaiJ CJC
pubmed:issnType	Print
pubmed:volume	75
pubmed:owner	NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete	Y
pubmed:pagination	1507-15
pubmed:dateRevised	2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading	pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Attitude, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Attitude to Health, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Cross-Cultural Comparison, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Female, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Hong Kong, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Male, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Personality Inventory, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Psychometrics, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Social Perception, pubmed-meshheading:7886172-Somatoform Disorders
pubmed:year	1994
pubmed:articleTitle	Differential predictive power of the positively versus the negatively worded items of the Life Orientation Test.
pubmed:affiliation	Department of Applied Social Studies, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Kowloon.
pubmed:publicationType	Journal Article, Comparative Study