Measuring optimism-pessimism from beliefs about future events

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 717-728

  Wenglert, Leif ^a   Rosén, Anne Sofie ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Expectancy value; Future; Optimism; Optimism pessimism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034165517     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00133-6     Document Type: Article

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