This paper analyses the relationship between dispositional optimism and stock investments. Data are drawn from the … second wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Dispositional optimism is found to be a relevant … dispositional optimism is found to be stronger for risk tolerant agents and its relationship with the share of wealth invested in …

show that on average entrepreneurs are more optimistic than others in their dispositional optimism and attributional style …

confirmation of the mediator role of dispositional optimism among a sample of 384 college students. Participants completed a … Well-Being Scale. The results revealed that both dispositional optimism and attributional styles were significantly …

to dispositional optimism. We further hypothesize that locus of control moderates the impact of external-efficacy beliefs …In this article we theoretically develop and empirically test an integrative conceptual framework linking dispositional … optimism as general outcome expectancy to general efficacy beliefs about internal (self) and external (instrumental social …