title: Dispositional optimism and coping with academic examinations.
abstract: Correlations between scores on dispositional optimism and four categories of coping strategies for academic examinations for a group of 248 Hong Kong undergraduates were .25 for Self-encouragement and -.20 for Cognitive Avoidance. These results lend partial support to the association of adaptive coping and optimism, measured by the Life Orientation Test.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. ssjulwin@cityu.edu.hk
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wan
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*