Optimism: Enduring resource or miscalibrated perception?

MF Purol, WJ Chopik - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is a general, widely‐held belief that optimism is always a good thing. While there is
much previous research suggesting that optimists enjoy several health and wellness …

Gratitude across the life span: Age differences and links to subjective well-being

WJ Chopik, NJ Newton, LH Ryan… - The journal of positive …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Gratitude has been described as an adaptive evolutionary mechanism that is relevant to
healthy psychological and interpersonal outcomes. Questions remain as to whether the …

Stability and change in risk-taking propensity across the adult life span.

AK Josef, D Richter, GR Samanez-Larkin… - Journal of personality …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Can risk-taking propensity be thought of as a trait that captures individual differences across
domains, measures, and time? Studying stability in risk-taking propensities across the life …

Subjective time perceptions and aging well: A review of concepts and empirical research-A mini-review

M Gabrian, AJ Dutt, HW Wahl - Gerontology, 2017 - karger.com
Human beings impose subjective, time-related interpretations on their existence, and the
experience of time is a major aspect of lifespan development. In this mini-review, we …

Changes in optimism and pessimism in response to life events: Evidence from three large panel studies

WJ Chopik, J Oh, ES Kim, T Schwaba… - Journal of Research in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although individuals vary in how optimistic they are about the future, one assumption that
researchers make is that optimism is sensitive to changes in life events and circumstances …

Age differences in explicit and implicit age attitudes across the life span

WJ Chopik, HL Giasson - The Gerontologist, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Purpose of the Study: Biased judgments about others can operate both within and
outside of our conscious awareness. However, little attention has been paid to how implicit …

Death across the lifespan: Age differences in death-related thoughts and anxiety

WJ Chopik - Death studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Many studies have found age-related declines in death-related anxiety. Why do death-
related thoughts and anxiety decline across the lifespan when exposure to, and likelihood …

Optimism and subjective well-being in nursing home older adults: the mediating roles of gratitude and social support

C Liu, D Luo, Y Zhou, G Zhang, X Feng, Z Wang… - Geriatric Nursing, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To examine the level of subjective well-being (SWB) and the mediating roles of
gratitude and social support in the relationship between optimism and SWB amongst older …

The role of optimism, self‐esteem, and self‐efficacy in moderating the relation between health comparisons and subjective well‐being: Results of a nationally …

A Hajek, HH König - British journal of health psychology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives It has been shown that negative health comparisons (ie, when one's health is
viewed as worse than the health of relevant others) are associated with subjective well …

Identifying moderators in the link between workplace discrimination and health/well-being

YE Xu, WJ Chopik - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The stress that arises from workplace discrimination can have a large impact on an
employee's work attitude, their work and life satisfaction, and oftentimes whether or not they …