Do optimism and pessimism have different relationships with personality dimensions? A re-examination

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Do optimism and pessimism have different relationships with personality dimensions? A re-examination

The classic, well-cited study by Marshall et al. (1992) demonstrated that optimism correlates stronger with extraversion than does pessimism and pessimism correlates stronger with neuroticism than does optimism, and these results lent support to their claim that optimism and pessimism are two separa...

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Main Authors:	Kam, C., Meyer, John
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Pergamon Press 2012
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19793

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