楽観主義に関する研究 : 女子青年の自己概念・時間的信念との関係から

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The purpose of the present study was to clarify the features of optimism. To accomplish this aim, we investigated the relationships between optimism and other three variables which were self-concepts, time beliefs and commitment to preset. A questionnaire of the Japanese version of Life Orientation Test (LOT : Togasaki & Sakano, 1985), the self-concept scale (Kato & Takagi, 1980), the Time Beliefs Scale (Shirai, 1993) and commitment to present that was subscale of Ego-identity Status Scale (Kato, 1983) was administered to 369 women who were university and vocationalschool for nurse. The main results were as follows : (a) Optimism had significantand positive relation with self-concept (activeness and cheerfulness-friendliness) ; (b) It had significcant but small relation with time beliefs (attachment to the presentand delay of gratification) ; (c) It had singnificant and positeive relation withcommitment to present. These results suggested that optimism had self-reliance as background factor.