Objective The present meta‐analysis consolidated research examining how positive
expectancies (eg, hope, self‐efficacy, and optimism) may protect against the development of …

Optimism is a cognitive construct (expectancies regarding future outcomes) that also relates
to motivation: optimistic people exert effort, whereas pessimistic people disengage from …

In spring 2020, COVID-19 and the ensuing social distancing and stay-at-home orders
instigated abrupt changes to employment and educational infrastructure, leading to …

Individual differences researchers very commonly report Pearson correlations between their
variables of interest. Cohen (1988) provided guidelines for the purposes of interpreting the …

Career adaptability, a psychosocial resource for managing career-related tasks, transitions,
and traumas, is a central construct in career construction theory and the field of vocational …

Objective: To derive a robust and comprehensive estimate of the overall relation between
Big Five personality traits and health variables using metasynthesis (ie, second-order meta …

An essay is presented on the importance of research in mental illness and dysfunctional
behavior, sociology and other behavioral science disciplines in the better understanding of …

For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic
process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking …

The unprecedented outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused an
economic downturn and increased the unemployment rate in China. In this context …

Purpose–This paper aims to develop and test a conceptual model that investigates the effect
of psychological capital on job, career and life satisfaction, mediated by work engagement …