Dispositional optimism is the generalized, relatively stable tendency to expect good
outcomes across important life domains. This article provides a representative review of 30 …

Major perspectives concerning stress are presented with the goal of clarifying the nature of
what has proved to be a heuristic but vague construct. Current conceptualizations of stress …

Objectives: To provide advice and guidance regarding the management of mood disorders,
derived from scientific evidence and supplemented by expert clinical consensus to formulate …

British Psychology Society Textbook of the Year 2020 Why do people who are more socially
connected live longer and have better health than those who are socially isolated? Why are …

There is growing recognition that identification with social groups can protect and enhance
health and well-being, thereby constituting a kind of “social cure.” The present research …

Social identities are known to improve well‐being, but why is this? We argue that this is
because they satisfy basic psychological needs, specifically, the need to belong, the need …

We present a revision of the 1978 reformulated theory of helplessness and depression and
call it the hopelessness theory of depression. Although the 1978 reformulation has …

When experience with uncontrollable events gives rise to the expectation that events in the
future will also elude control, disruptions in motivation, emotion, and learning may ensue." …

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Vorarbeiten an einer» völlig überarbeiteten «Neuauflage wurde es mir zu peinlich, meinen …

The attributional reformulation of the learned helplessness model as outlined by LY
Abramson et al (see record 1979-00305-001) claims that an explanatory style in which bad …