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Steca, P., Monzani, D., Greco, A., Chiesi, F., & Primi, C. (2014). Item Response Theory Analysis of the Life Orientation Test-Revised: Age and Gender Differential Item Functioning Analyses. Assessment, 22, 341-350.
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• TITLE: The Stability of Dispositional Optimism in Relation to Receiving or Not Receiving a Cancer Diagnosis

  AUTHORS: Inger Schou Bredal, Øivind Ekeberg

  KEYWORDS: Anxiety, Depression, Optimism, Personality

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.7 No.6, June 8, 2016

  ABSTRACT: We used the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) as a unidimensional scale to investigate the stability of dispositional optimism and compared the results with the stability of anxiety and depression. Five hundred and twelve women completed the LOT-R and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale before follow-up mammography and 4 weeks after receiving the result (breast cancer or not). This study shows that dispositional optimism is relatively stable and is not influenced by receiving a cancer diagnosis.