John R. Anderson’s scientific contributions

... Hope can be defined as an individual's attitude towards changes in the contemporary labor market. It consists of two crucial aspects, namely agency thinking, which refers to the determination to initiate and sustain the effort required to achieve goals and aspirations, and path thinking, which is required to achieve a goal (Snyder et al. 1991). It is a "guidance-drive resource" in that it helps individuals to plan goals, mobilize other resources, and enact behaviors to achieve goals. ...

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Resources and Personal Adjustment for Career Transitions Among Adolescents: A Latent Profile Analysis

... Consistent with Scheier and Carver's (1985) contention that optimism/pessimism are essential determinants of health, findings from thousands of studies based on using the LOT-R (or its earlier version) in adult populations have generally supported the contention that the presence of optimism, or the absence of pessimism, is associated with greater well-being (e.g., life satisfaction; Chang, 2025b;Daukantaitė & Zukauskiene, 2012;Scheier et al., 1994), whereas the absence of optimism, or the presence of pessimism, is associated with greater ill-being (e.g., depressive symptoms; Andersson, 1996;Romswinkel et al., 2018;Uribe et al., 2021). Similarly, according to Snyder et al. (1999), hope refers to generalized positive outcome expectancies that are predicated explicitly on a belief in one's sense of agency (positive belief in one's ability or will to achieve a goal) and pathways (positive belief that there are multiple ways to achieve a goal), and has been measured by the Hope Scale (HS; Snyder et al., 1991). Similar to the pattern found for optimism/pessimism, findings from hundreds of studies examining hope have shown that hope is associated with greater well-being (e.g., life satisfaction; Chang & Caino, 2024;Chang et al., 2019a, b;Muyan-Yılık & Bakalım, 2021) and lesser ill-being (e.g., depressive symptoms; Arnau et al., 2007;Corrigan & Schutte, 2023;Li et al., 2018). ...

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Outcome Expectancy and Mental Health in Dominican, Puerto Rican, and South American Adults: Distinguishing Robust Predictors Across Three US Latinx Groups Using Dominance Analysis