Many writings in the media and in various seminars which warns that a severe and prolonged stress will affect one's physical and psychological health. Meanwhile, in everyday life we see that not everyone has a reaction
equal to the same stress. Even mild levels of stress for the A can be felt as a heavy pressure for the B so that he suffered stress-related illness.
Examples are Andi's rapid recovery after a big loss, disappointment and even in great suffering due to the 1997 financial crisis. But not with Indra that it takes a very long and many years to be able to restore itself to normalcy.
What is the cause? Why so? According to Camille B. Wortman and his colleagues in the Psychology book, it happens because there are differences in personality. The experts have traced the personality dimensions that appear to be related to stress and disease caused by stress, is the optimistic and pessimistic nature of one's own.
In a study of the students for example, those who are optimistic and have high test scores were less likely to experience symptoms such as headaches and abdominal pain, compared with students whose value is low.
Other studies have also shown that students who were pessimistic about twice as many who had various infections and ill visit the doctor two times more often than optimistic students. So concluded recently by experts that individuals who are optimistic are more likely to adapt physically and psychologically to stress.
Characteristics that are recognized
So, how can we identify ourselves and others including the optimistic or pessimistic? According Worthman and friends, its properties can be known of how the person reacts to a problem.
Pessimistic people tend to blame themselves if it is bad. For instance, he said, "It's my fault." Usually they are too excessive to conclude the issue, by saying,
This problem will not ever finish, "and," All the chaos would follow. "
Even according to Wortman, a pessimistic person then linking small events in the past and regarded as a threat to its ability to face problems today.
Conversely, people who are optimistic tend to associate a bad event by factors outside itself, and usually only a limited and temporary. "That's not my fault," so usually they say, or, "This must not happen again," and also, "This is not the end of the world." They believe that good things will happen to them and that they will be able to resolve whatever problems that might occur.
Measuring Trends
To find out how the tendency of a person, including the optimistic or pessimistic, here are the questions used to measure it Scheier & Carver. Respondents were only asked to answer "wrong" or "true."
Unfortunately not explained how to measure, so that we can not use it properly. However, we still can use the following questions as raw introspection, that there are certain points of view that perhaps we realize it becomes less important psychologically and show our personality. If necessary, discuss with the experts you trust.
1. In the time it is not necessarily (in general), I usually expect the best of everything.
2. If something wrong could happen to me, it will happen.
3. I always see the bright side (either side) of something.
4. I am always optimistic about my future.
5. I tried hard to get everything going according to my way.
6. Things have never managed to fit the way I want.
7. I am a believer in the idea that 'every cloud has a line
keperakannya '.
8. I rarely rely on the good things that happened to me
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