DOES OUR LEVEL OF OPTIMISM/PESSIMISM CHANGE WITH LIFE- EXPERIENCES

Team IIBP Anveshan, Issue 2, Volume 1

Optimism/Pessimism is conceptualised in two distinct, if not exclusive, manner. One, as a ‘dispositional optimism’ -a generalised expectation that good things will happen in future. Two, as a general feeling of hope and joy with regard to future.Researchers have debated since long whether it is in-born or learnt. The earlier view was that it is rather in-born which is modified …