"I can tell you if i'll really lose all that weight": Dispositional and situated optimism as predictors of weight loss following a group intervention

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 844-861

  Benyamini, Yael ^a   Raz, Olga ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

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EID: 33947662919     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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