Optimism and Health-related Behavior of Czech University Students

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DOSEDLOVÁ Jaroslava KLIMUSOVÁ Helena SLOVÁČKOVÁ Zuzana KEBZA Vladimír

Year of publication 2011
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The research studies a particular theme of a project supported by Czech Grant Agency (No. 406/09/0611). This exploratory study contributes to clarifications on relation among dispositional optimism/pessimism, optimism/pessimism as an explanatory style and health-related behavior. The main aim of the presented study is to verify on a sample of Czech respondents the relationship between optimism and high activity towards own health and, on the contrary, the connection between pessimism and passivity, which was proven in the US.
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