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Optimism: Scoring Test From Seligman's Learned Optimism

The document outlines Seligman's Learned Optimism test for measuring optimism. It describes scoring different components of optimism like permanent or pervasive good/bad outlooks. It provides thresholds for interpreting scores on each component and overall as very optimistic, moderately optimistic, average, moderately pessimistic, or very pessimistic. The overall score is calculated by subtracting the total score on bad components from the total on good components.

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Optimism: Scoring Test From Seligman's Learned Optimism

The document outlines Seligman's Learned Optimism test for measuring optimism. It describes scoring different components of optimism like permanent or pervasive good/bad outlooks. It provides thresholds for interpreting scores on each component and overall as very optimistic, moderately optimistic, average, moderately pessimistic, or very pessimistic. The overall score is calculated by subtracting the total score on bad components from the total on good components.

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Optimism

Scoring test from Seligman’s


Learned Optimism
Permanent Bad (PmB)
• Add up score on items
• 5, 13, 20, 21, 29, 33, 42, 46
• Total of 0 or 1 very optimistic
• 2 or 3 mod. optimistic
• 4 average
• 5 or 6 mod. pessimistic
• 7 or 8 very pessimistic
Permanent Good (PmG)
• Add up score on items
• 2, 10, 14, 15, 24, 26, 28, 40
• Total of 7 or 8 very optimistic
• 6 mod. optimistic
• 4 or 5 average
• 3 mod. pessimistic
• 0, 1 or 2 very pessimistic
Pervasiveness Bad (PvB)
• Add up score on items
• 8, 16, 17, 18, 22, 32, 44, 48
• Total of 0 or 1 very optimistic
• 2 or 3 mod. optimistic
• 4 average
• 5 or 6 mod. pessimistic
• 7 or 8 very pessimistic
Pervasiveness Good (PvG)
• Add up score on items
• 6, 7, 28, 31, 34, 35, 37, 43
• Total of 7 or 8 very optimistic
• 6 mod. optimistic
• 4 or 5 average
• 3 mod. pessimistic
• 0, 1 or 2 very pessimistic
Personalization Bad (PsB)
• Add up score on items
• 3, 9, 19, 25, 30, 39, 41, 47
• Total of 0 or 1 very high self esteem
• 2 or 3 mod. high self esteem
• 4 average
• 5 or 6 mod. low self esteem
• 7 or 8 very low self esteem
Personalization Good (PsG)
• Add up score on items
• 1, 4, 11, 12, 23, 27, 36, 45
• Total of 7 or 8 very optimistic
• 6 mod. optimistic
• 4 or 5 average
• 3 mod. pessimistic
• 0, 1 or 2 very pessimistic
Overall scores
• Add three B’s • Add three G’s
• PmB • PmG
• PvB • PvG
• PsB • PsG
• Total B • Total G

Total G minus Total B = Total optimism score


Total B score
• 3 to 6 marvelously optimistic
• 6 to 9 moderately optimistic
• 10 or 11 average
• 12-14 moderately pessimistic
• 15 or over very pessimistic, need
to read Changing chapters
Total G score
• 19 or higher marvelously optimistic
• 17 to 19 moderately optimistic
• 14 to 16 average
• 11 to 13 moderately pessimistic
• 10 or less very pessimistic, need
to read Changing chapters
Total optimism score (G-B)
• 9 or above optimistic across the board
• 6 to 8 moderately optimistic
• 3 to 5 average
• 1 or 2 moderately pessimistic
• 0 very pessimistic, need
to read Changing chapters
Hope score
• Add PvB and PmB
• Total of 0, 1 or 2 very hopeful
• 3 to 6 mod. hopeful
• 7 or 8 average
• 9 to 11 mod. hopeless
• 12 to 16 very hopeless

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