Mental Process
Pessimism
Mental attitude that interprets life events as generally being negative.
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Pessimism, an attitude of hopelessness toward life and toward existence, coupled with a vague general opinion that pain and evil predominate in the world. It is derived from the Latin pessimus...
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The Upside of Pessimism · Are there benefits to being a pessimist? · Do negative or depressed people see the world more realistically? · Does thinking like a ...
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Nov 17, 2016 ... The data concerning the connection of CHD and dispositional optimism and pessimism as personality traits is relatively scarce. The aim of this ...
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... of .93 and correlated well with the Stuart Future Test (SFT) and the pessimism item of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; .60 and .63, respectively).
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Jan 23, 2018 ... Pessimism was related to fearfulness, with more fearful calves making more pessimistic judgments. We conclude that dairy calves differ in ...
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Oct 15, 2018 ... Persons who have a feeling or belief that good things will happen in the future are called optimists and they are said to see “the glass as half ...
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AbstractObjective. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of optimism/pessimism for anxiety, depression and health-related quality of ...
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Pessimism About the Future May Lead to Longer, Healthier Life, Research Finds. Optimistic older adults face greater risk of disabilities and death, ...
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The meaning of PESSIMISM is an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome.
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pessimism, an attitude of hopelessness toward life and toward existence, coupled with a vague general opinion that pain and evil predominate in the world.
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Oct 11, 2020 ... Pessimism is defined by the American Psychological Association as "the attitude that things will go wrong and that people's wishes or aims ...