TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tetzner, Julia
A1  - Becker, Michael
T1  - How Being an Optimist Makes a Difference: The Protective Role of Optimism in Adolescents' Adjustment to Parental Separation
T2  - Social psychological and personality science
N2  - This longitudinal study of N = 1,566 adolescents investigated the protective role of optimism in adjustment to parental separation, focusing on two salient challenges faced by adolescents, namely academic achievement and self-esteem. Based on latent change models, the results indicated associations between parental separation and short-term declines in academic achievement as well as short-term and longer term declines in self-esteem. Although optimism in general showed positive associations with academic achievement and self-esteem, its role as a protective factor proved to be particularly important for academic achievement in adjustment following parental separation.
KW  - parental separation
KW  - optimism
KW  - academic achievement
KW  - self-esteem
KW  - longitudinal study
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39065
SN  - 1948-5506
SN  - 1948-5514
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SP  - 325
EP  - 333
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -