Please be as honest and accurate as you can throughout. Try not to let your response to one statement influence your responses to other statements. There are no “correct” or “incorrect” answers. Answer according to your own feelings, rather than how you think “most people” would answer and circle the response that best represents your own feelings.
Circle the response that best describes you:
Age: under 2121-30 31-4041-5051-60 60+
Gender: M F
Please use the following response set to answer the items below:
1= Strongly Disagree 2= Somewhat Disagree 3=Neither Agree or Disagree 4=Somewhat Agree 5= Strongly Agree
1. In uncertain times, I usually expect the best. 123452. Things rarely go wrong for me. 123453. I'm always optimistic about my future. 123454. I expect things to go my way. 123455. I count on good things happening to me. 123456. Overall, I expect more good things to happen
to me than bad. 12345
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