The Journal of Psychology Dispositional Optimism

Question: Describe about the Mediating role of coping in the dispositional optimismposttraumatic growth relation in breast cancer patients? Answer: The optimism is the confidence and hopefulness about the success of some future activities. It is a psychological viewpoint or attitude that indicates the best possible outcomes from any given situation. It is usually referred to the dispositional optimism (Tindle et al., 2012). In this paper, the major focus is to discuss the effects of optimism in on the physical and psychological health based on two selected articles on the physical and psychological health as the result of optimism. In the first article by Leung et al. (2015), the authors focused on the relationship between general health and psychological distress of breast cancer patients. It has been reviewed by Ikeda et al. (2011) that, optimism is one of the key drivers of the enhanced survival of the patients suffering from breast cancer. The authors aimed to analyze the association of optimism with the psychological distress of the women suffering from the breast cancer and their general health. In this context, authors collected data from nationally representative sample of 12255 women in Scottish Health Survey. As per the data, 11960 were control patients and 295 were breast cancer patients (Leung et al., 2015). They analyzed the data with the explanatory variables including optimism and general health. Additionally, the symptoms of psychological distress were analyzed as the outcome variables. The result showed superior levels of optimism with lower psychological distress in control and breast cancer g roups while analyzed in an unadjusted model (Ramirez-Maestre, Esteve Lopez, 2012). In contrast, when these data were analyzed through the adjusted model with general health, the control group showed lower psychological distress with optimism and in the breast cancer set, the reduced general health was associated with psychological distress. In this context, this article highlighted that the optimism is an important factor affecting the psychological well-being of people. In the normal condition, it is revealed that optimism helps to enhance the psychological well-being of people (Ikeda et al., 2011). Therefore, the more people will be familiar with optimism the more they will be psychological fit. In contrast, in the case of breast cancer patient, it has been understood that optimism in health care intervention can enhance the psychological well-being of the breast cancer patients, thereby enhancing their survivals. However, in the case of breast cancer patient or the patients suffering from any critical disorders, the psychological health is strongly related to th eir general health (BuyukaÃ…Å ¸ik-olak, Gundogdu-Aktuirk Bozo, 2012). Therefore, though the psychological health can be improved through the optimism, the general health or physical health might be unpredictable. Therefore, this article revealed that the psychological health could be improved through the high optimism. In another study by Goodin Bulls (2013) focused on the effect of optimism on the physical health and well-being of people. The major focus of this study was to relate the optimism with the experience of pain and the benefits of pain. Some existing literatures supported the health-promoting effects of an optimistic personality disposition. These effects have been observed through different physical and psychological dimensions. In this context, this article presented the review of different kinds of literature for identifying the link between the pain and optimism. In this case, the article revealed that better management of acute as well as chronic pains are associated with the better optimism and influence the patients to have positive experiences related to pain (Goodin Bulls, 2013). However, the associations among the pain outcomes and optimism are recent topic of research, but the recent and emerging clinical research outcomes and experimental data found strong links within the optimism and lowered pain sensitivity. Some literatures reveled that, the better adjustments of the patients with chronic pain (BuyukaÃ…Å ¸ik-olak, Gundogdu-Aktuirk Bozo, 2012). The literature review found recent studies examining the effects of optimism on the pain experience with samples healthy samples in laboratory settings and the samples with clinically painful situations. From this paper, it has been revealed that optimism is a positive factor that influences the positive experience of physical illness like pain. It helps to promote better management of pain, thereby enhancing the benefits of care practices. Therefore, from this article, it has been revealed that there are a number of factors contributing to the effects of optimism on the benefits of pain-related care plans, these include hope, acceptance, catastrophizing and coping strategies (Goodin Bulls, 2013). These two articles showed that, in both physical and psychological well-being, optimism has a significant role. It has been revealed that supportive care interventions, advice and supportive environment should be provided by the health care team while working with a patient with psychological or physical illness for enhancing their optimism. Especially, in the case of end-life care, optimism is a major factor enhancing the benefits of health care outcomes. 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