Learned optimism: The measurement of explanatory style.

2003 ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Reivich ◽  
Jane Gillham
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Style ◽  
Learned Optimism

scholarly journals Learned Optimism in Children

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Shatté ◽  
Karen Reivich ◽  
Jane E. Gillham ◽  
Martin E. P. Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Childhood Depression ◽  
Explanatory Style ◽  
Behavioral Risk Factors ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Depression Prevention ◽  
Learned Optimism ◽  
Pessimistic Explanatory Style

In this chapter examines learned optimism in children and examines a depression prevention program for children. It focuses on two related cognitive-behavioral risk factors for depression in children; learned helplessness and pessimistic explanatory style. It briefly profiles childhood depression and outlines the nature of learned helplessness and pessimism in children, before offering two conceptualizations of learned optimism.

Pessimistic Explanatory Style, Affectivity, and Psychological Adjustment

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann K. Leiting ◽  
Edward C. Chang ◽  
Kathryn M. Zumberg ◽  
Lawrence J. Sanna ◽  
Molly M. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Explanatory Style ◽  
Pessimistic Explanatory Style

Optimism and College Grades: Predicting GPA From Explanatory Style

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viliyana Maleva ◽  
Kathryn Westcott ◽  
Mark McKellop ◽  
Ronald McLaughlin ◽  
David Widman
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Style ◽  
Predicting Gpa ◽  
College Grades

scholarly journals Explanatory Styles of Counsellors in Training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Boyer ◽  
Paul Jerry ◽  
Gwen R. Rempel ◽  
James Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Explanatory Style ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Client Outcomes ◽  
Counsellor Training ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Positive Expectancy ◽  
Explanatory Styles

AbstractExplanatory style is based on how one explains good and bad events according to three dimensions: personalization, permanence, and pervasiveness. With an optimistic explanatory style, good events are explained as personal, permanent, and pervasive, whereas bad events are explained as external, temporary, and specific. For counsellors, an optimistic explanatory style creates positive expectancy judgments about the possibilities and opportunities for successful client outcomes. In this research study, we explored the explanatory styles expressed in 400 events (200 good events and 200 bad events) extracted from 38,013 writing samples of first year and final year graduate level counsellors in training. Across the three optimism dimensions and within good and bad events, there was one occurrence of a positive relationship between counsellor training time and the amount of expressed optimism. The implications of this study include the need to cultivate optimistic explanatory styles of counsellors in training and practicing counsellors.

Explanatory Style among Elite Ice Hockey Athletes

1998 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 1075-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Davis ◽  
Leonard Zaichkowsky
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Style ◽  
Ice Hockey

Explanatory Style Explained

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Peter S. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Style
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