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Optimism & pessimism: Implications for theory, research, and practice.Optimism, pessimism, and self-regulation.

Optimism & pessimism: Implications for theory, research, and practice.: Optimism, pessimism, and... Provides a brief overview of the broad model, based on the expectancy–value perspective on motivation, to explain the role of optimism and pessimism in the self-regulation of behavior. The model uses the idea that behavior embodies feedback control processes. The basic unit of analysis is the discrepancy-reducing feedback loop, which is a system of 4 elements in a particular organization: an input function, equivalent to perception; a reference value, or goals; a comparator, or comparison of input and reference value; and an output function, which is equivalent to behavior. This view of optimism connects to a dynamic and very broad model of the creation of behavior and feelings. This connection means that optimism need not be a topic that stands out from the rest of psychology, and provides a broader context for studies of behavioral and emotional consequences of optimism and pessimism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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American Psychological Association
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Copyright © 2001 American Psychological Association
Pages
31–51
DOI
10.1037/10385-002
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Provides a brief overview of the broad model, based on the expectancy–value perspective on motivation, to explain the role of optimism and pessimism in the self-regulation of behavior. The model uses the idea that behavior embodies feedback control processes. The basic unit of analysis is the discrepancy-reducing feedback loop, which is a system of 4 elements in a particular organization: an input function, equivalent to perception; a reference value, or goals; a comparator, or comparison of input and reference value; and an output function, which is equivalent to behavior. This view of optimism connects to a dynamic and very broad model of the creation of behavior and feelings. This connection means that optimism need not be a topic that stands out from the rest of psychology, and provides a broader context for studies of behavioral and emotional consequences of optimism and pessimism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 31, 2004

Keywords: expectancy-value models of motivation & self-regulation model of behavioral & emotional consequences of optimism & pessimism

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