Breaking Murphy's law : how optimists get what they want from life-- and pessimists can too / Suzanne C. Segerstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segerstrom, Suzanne C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Optimism.

Self-actualization (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents a survey of the scientific data on optimism (including the author's award-winning research) to reveal that it's not what you believe about the future that matters, but what you do about it. This book aims to teach readers practical ways to appropriate the habits and skills that optimists use to get what they want from life.

Contents:

Prologue: stop trying to be so happy

Glass half full, glass half empty, or glass that needs to be washed? the optimistic character

The persistence instinct: optimists and their goals

Building (and rebuilding) for the future: optimists and their resources

So happy together: optimists and their relationships

Mixed blessing: optimists and their health

Everything good, especially the bad: optimists and their vulnerabilities

Is an optimist born or made? the optimistic character revisited

Doing optimism: optimists, pessimists, and their potential for change

Epilogue: confessions of a reluctant optimist.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60918-936-1

1-281-12303-X

9786611123031

1-59385-505-2

OCLC:

476086132