The Significance of Dispositional Optimism and Coping in Predicting Psychological Distress, Life Satisfaction, Health Perception, and Frequency of Discharges in the Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD) Patient
Dispositional optimism, as a stable outcome expectancy, has been shown to predict health outcomes in several contexts. Research has demonstrated that health-impaired subjects with optimistic outlooks fared better than those with a pessimistic outlook. Choice of coping strategies has been theorized a...
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DigitalCommons@USU
1993
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6064 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7121&context=etd |