Whether your forecasts for uncertain days lean workable or grim. A style of expectation, not a mood right now.
About this test
Scheier, Carver, and Bridges designed the Life Orientation Test–Revised (LOT-R) to measure dispositional optimism: a general expectation that outcomes will be favorable. The scale mixes forward-worded hope with reverse-worded pessimism, because denying gloom is not the same item as expecting good. Optimism in this research is not a command to 'stay positive,' and it is only weakly the same thing as a cheerful mood. These items are original and follow that two-direction design.
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What this test asks
When I cannot see the ending, I still expect there is a workable path.
I rarely count on things going my way.
If something can go wrong for me, I tend to assume it will.
I look at the next year with more hope than dread.
I can picture a setback and still see a next step that helps.
My default forecast for my own life is gloomy.
When a plan fails, I assume another route is still available.
Hope feels like a setup for disappointment.
I give a new effort a real chance before I decide it will fail.
I expect more bad news than good from a stretch of time I cannot predict.
Even a hard season looks, to me, like something that can turn.
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