OPTIMISTIC ATTITUDE TOWARD PERSONAL FUTURE AND PERCEIVED CONTROL
Keywords:
perceived control, optimism, personal future vision, generation future visionAbstract
Optimistic approach to future guide young people to achieve long-term goals and very often become an active action coping mechanism in stress situation. Person, who understand her life sense, is purposeful, life satisfied with high level of environmental, and life events’ perceived control. The purpose of this article is the analysis of personal future vision for modern youth, future planning and perceived under life events control research. That study had done in 2016. The 90 participant’s different age (from 14 to 35 years) took part in the future vision study. Study methodology was based on unrealistic optimism theory and on M. Fishbein I.Ajzen theory of reasoned actionIt provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the concern. Main result is that people tend to put higher than average probability on positive event in their future rather than negative events. Events were associated with main areas of Young generations and country lives. Individuals were asked to evaluate them on a scale from 0 to 10 of being positive or negative with 0 – strictly negative and 10 – strictly positive. Additionally, participants were asked to put high or low probability tags on events. Main result based on correlation between personal and generation future vision and perceived control level. Personal future vision was not correlate with different perceived control indicators and levels. It correlated with self-efficiency and emotions optionality. However, generation’s future vision was correlated with general control level, risk acceptance and inclusiveness in social life. Factors’ Analysis results only partly confirm hypothesis about relations between optimistic personal future vision and different control indicators and levels and personal features. Those results only partly confirmed main research hypothesis.
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