Tragic Optimism as a Buffer Against COVID-19 Suffering and the Psychometric Properties of a Brief Version of the Life Attitudes Scale [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The Life Attitudes Scale (LAS) was designed to measure tragic optimism (TO)—a distinct type of optimism that could generate hopeless hope even in dire situations according to existential positive psychology (PP 2.0).
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Protectors of Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Roles for Gratitude and Tragic Optimism in a UK-Based Cohort [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a global threat to physical and mental health worldwide. Research has highlighted adverse impacts of COVID-19 on wellbeing but has yet to offer insights as to how wellbeing may be protected. Inspired by developments in
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Letting Go of Familiar Narratives as Tragic Optimism in the Era of COVID-19. [PDF]
J Med Humanit, 2021 The ongoing trauma of COVID-19 will no doubt mark entire generations in ways inherent in an unmanaged global pandemic. The question that I ask is why this ongoing trauma seems so particularly profound and so uniquely shattering, and whether there is anything that we could do now, while still in the midst of disaster, to begin the process of social and ...
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Predictors of wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Key roles for gratitude and tragic optimism in a UK-based cohort. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Here we examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on wellbeing among UK-based respondents (N = 133). We explore the extent to which variables across wellbeing domains (physical activity, gratitude, tragic optimism, social support, and nature connection) contribute to wellbeing according to our previously proposed GENIAL model.
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Optimism in dire times: The buffering role of optimism in the relationship between food insecurity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
HeliyonConsidering the need to gain a deeper understanding of the protective factors associated with coping with food insecurity, specifically in times of severe prolonged stress, the current longitudinal study seeks to examine the role of optimism in the ...
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Book reviews: Popescu Constantin – Life like tragic optimism – an ecolonomic perspective
Annals of Spiru Haret University Economic Series, 2011 As the title indicates, this is a book about life and its optimism, considered somehow tragic by an economist, who has been concerned for years with the balanced economic growth, based on production functions, rigorous from a mathematic point of view ...
Ilie Şimon
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Nietzsche's reading of the Pandora myth: Pessimism, hope, and the tragic art of the Greeks [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2020 I.This essay is focused on Nietzsche’s unique reading of the Pandora myth as it appears in Human, All Too Human and develops an interpretation of Hope, the most profound evil of the many evils released by Pandora infecting the human condition, as it ...
James Magrini
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“GRIEF AND RESILIENCE LIVE TOGETHER”: AN ASSESSMENT OF ARTHUR MILLER’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Celtic, 2022 The present study was carried out to assess Mrs. Obama’s assertion, “grief and resilience live together”, in Miller’s tragedy, Death of a Salesman, from the theoretical perspectives of Marxism and Psychoanalysis. Using a qualitative content analysis, the
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The Evil of Nature and the Corona Tragedy: Re-Reading Hamartia in Poetics [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2020 Extended AbstractTo explain the effects of tragedy on the audience, Aristotle refers to the fear and compassion conveyed to them following the protagonist’s unfortunate fate.
Alireza Aram
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The epistemological aspect of conceptual sphere in the artistic world of A.P. Chekhov
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2023 The purpose of the study is to explore the gnoseological aspect of Anton Chekhov’s art world conceptual sphere, specifically the disconnect between reality and human perception. The research is grounded in theoretical works on the gnoseological nature of
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