DISPOSITIONAL OPTIMISM AND COPING WITH ACADEMIC EXAMINATIONS

Authors
LAI JCL WAN W
Citation
Jcl. Lai et W. Wan, DISPOSITIONAL OPTIMISM AND COPING WITH ACADEMIC EXAMINATIONS, Perceptual and motor skills, 83(1), 1996, pp. 23-27
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
83
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
23 - 27
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1996)83:1<23:DOACWA>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Correlations between scores on dispositional optimism and four categor ies of coping strategies for academic examinations for a group of 248 Hong Kong undergraduates were .25 for Self-encouragement and -.20 for Cognitive Avoidance. These results lend partial support to the associa tion of adaptive coping and optimism, measured by the Life Orientation Test.