Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology

fa خوش‌بینی- بدبینی و راهبردهای کنارآمدن: پیش‌بینی سازگاری روان‌شناختی در نوجوانان Optimism-Pessimism and Coping Strategies: Prediction of Psychological Adjustment in Adolescents پژوهشي اصيل Original Research <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly">Abstract<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly mso-layout-grid-align: none">Objectives: Optimism plays a major role in coping with stressful life events. The purpose of the present study is to examine the influence of optimism on coping strategies and psychological adjustment in adole-scents. <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly mso-layout-grid-align: none">Method: In a correlational and causal-comparative study, 208 females and 147 males volunteers to university entrance examination through a random cluster sampling were selected. Four questionnaires of Life Orientation Test - Revised (LOT-R), Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOCQ), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were then administered to the subjects. <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly mso-layout-grid-align: none">Results: Optimists benefited greater problem-focused coping strategies compared to the pessimists. In addition, they had better general health (p<0.001) and life satisfaction (p<0.001). Regression analysis indicated that optimism-pessimism accounted for a significant amount of the variance (p<0.05) in coping strategies and psychological adjustment. <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly mso-layout-grid-align: none">Conclusion: These findings confirm the role of optimism in employing better psychological adjustment.<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida DIRECTION: ltr TEXT-INDENT: 0cm LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt MARGIN-RIGHT: 6.5pt unicode-bidi: embed TEXT-ALIGN: justify TEXT-KASHIDA: 0% mso-line-height-rule: exactly"> کلیدواژه: خوش‌بینی، بدبینی‌، راهبردهای کنارآمدن‌، سازگاری روان‌شناختی، نوجوانان، سلامت عمومی، رضایت از زندگی Key words: optimism, pessimism, coping strategies, psychological adjustment, adolescents, general health, life satisfaction 380 389 http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-127&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Mohammad Hossein Mousavi Nasab محمد حسین موسوی‌نسب E-mail: smhmn1979@yahoo.com 18003194753284600463 18003194753284600463 Yes Mohammad Reza Taghavi محمد رضا تقوی 18003194753284600464 18003194753284600464 No