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A Research on the Relationships among Explanatory style, Dispositional Optimism and Psychological Well-being

YUAN Li-min1, ZHANG Ri-sheng2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. College of Education, Hebei University, Baoding 071002
  • Online:2007-04-15 Published:2007-04-15

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Abstract: The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationships among explanatory style, dispositional optimism and psychological well-being(depression and the satisfaction with life). The results showed as follows:(1) Explanatory style had a significant negative correlation with dispositional optimism and satisfaction with life, a significant positive correlation with depression. Dispositional optimism had a significant negative correlation with depression, a significant positive correlation with satisfaction with life;(2) On internality of explanatory style, optimist and pessimist had not significant differences on low, middle, and high controllable level events;On stability and globality of explanatory style, the pessimist had more pessimistic explanatory styles than the optimist when facing middle and high controllable level events, although they had not significantly different explanatory styles when facing low controllable level events;(3) Dispositional optimism was a mediated variable which could mediate the relationship between explanatory style with depression, the relationship with satisfaction with life.

Key words: explanatory style, dispositional optimism, pessimism, psychological well-being

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  • B844.2
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