التفاؤل و التشاؤم من حيث علاقتهما بعدد من المتغيرات النفسية لدى المرأة الجزائرية مقارنة بالرجل

Abstract EN

One can hardly ignore the influence of optimism and pessimism or lessen their importance on human behaviour.

Both of them exerce an influence upon individual psychological life and expectancies, now and in the future.

This research aimed at the study of optimism/pessimism as related to a number of psychological variables in Algerian women as compared to Algerian men.

For this purpose, two samples of 100 men and women were submitted to battery of scales made of: attitudes towards self, optimism/pessimism and beck's depression inventory scales.

Results showed a strong correlation relationship between optimism/pessimism scores and the psychological variables studied (depression, attitudes towards self and locus of control).

Results also showed significant differences between means of optimism/pessimism and means of the psychological variables investigated.