PSYCH 3BA3 Chapter 8: Seeing Our Futures Through Optimism, and Hope - Part 2
27 Jan 2016
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Abramson, seligman, teasdale (1978) - reformulated their model of helplessness to incorporate the attributions that people make for the bad and good things that happen to them. Martin seligman later used this attribution or explanatory process as basis for his theory of learned optimism. Childhood antecedents of learned optimism appears to be some genetic component of explanatory style with learned optimism scores more highly correlated for monozygotic than dizygotic twins (correlations = 0. 48 vs. Scales: can learned optimism be measured? instrument used to measure attributional style in adults = attributional style. Questionnaire instrument for children = children"s attributional style questionnaire. Asq poses negative or positive life events and respondents asked to indicate what they believe to be the causal explanation of those events on dimensions of internal / external, stable/ transient and global/specific. Learned optimistic explanatory style associated with the following when compared to the.
