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Optimism In The Philippines

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There are several studies that may give more ideas and knowledge in understanding the motive of this research. Below are different studies that would relate and provide support to this thesis paper. Optimism is an individual difference variable that reflects the extent to which people hold generalized favorable expectancies for their future. Higher levels of optimism have been related prospectively to better subjective well-being in times of adversity or difficulty (i.e., controlling for previous well-being). Consistent with such findings, optimism has been linked to higher levels of engagement coping and lower levels of avoidance, or disengagement, coping. An investigation into the relationship between student-reported optimism and year in …show more content…

People are naturally inclined to think about life in a positive way. In the Philippines setting, causal attributions for success and failure at a forthcoming examination by 246 Filipino college freshmen, 64 males and 182 females was examined on 1980. It appeared that these young Filipinos generally possessed adaptive patterns of attribution. They ascribed possible success to somewhat more internal rather than external sources but attributed possible failure almost equally to these factors. Luck was perceived as being only of relatively minor importance. Internal success attribution was found to correlate significantly with satisfaction with success in three out of four cases. Effort attribution correlated significantly with the students ‘ratings of how hard they had tried (Watkins and Attila, …show more content…

Villavicencio conducted a study on “Influence of Self-efficacy and help-seeking on Task Value and Academic Achievement” last 2011. The study examined the predictive relationships of help-seeking, help avoidance and self-efficacy, task value and achievement in final grades. A total of 215 (124 males and 91 females) engineering enrolled in algebra answered the self-efficacy and task value scales. Help –seeking was assessed using Marchand and Skinner’s scale. The task value and self-efficacy for learning and performance scales of the Motivated Strategies of Learning Questionnaire were also used. Students’ achievement was measured in terms of the participants’’ final grades in algebra (Villavicencio 166,

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