Positive Thinking Scale
Psychology: Mental Health1 sample item
About this scale
Think Positive! You surely have heard this before. The idea of positive thinking came en vogue in the 1950s with the popular (but also heavily criticised) book Power of Positive Thinking .
Sample item(s)
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Notes
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Source & citation
Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Tov, W., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi. D., Oishi, S., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2009). New measures of well-being: Flourishing and positive and negative feelings. Social Indicators Research, 39 , 247-266. Online available here .
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