Optimism/pessimism and information-processing styles: Can their influences be distinguished in predicting psychological adjustment?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 555-562

  Chang, Edward C ^a   Farrehi, Angela S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Coping; Information processing; Optimism; Pessimism; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042407821     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00159-8     Document Type: Article

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