Ian Brissette

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Publications

  1. ncbi The role of optimism in social network development, coping, and psychological adjustment during a life transition
    Ian Brissette
    Insititute for Health Health Care Policy and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 08901, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 82:102-11. 2002
  2. ncbi Observer ratings of health and sickness: can other people tell us anything about our health that we don't already know?
    Ian Brissette
    Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Dept of Psychology, Inst for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
    Health Psychol 22:471-8. 2003

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  1. ncbi The role of optimism in social network development, coping, and psychological adjustment during a life transition
    Ian Brissette
    Insititute for Health Health Care Policy and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 08901, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 82:102-11. 2002
    ..Mediational analyses were consistent with a model in which increases in social support and greater use of positive reinterpretation and growth contributed to the superior adjustment that optimists experienced...
  2. ncbi Observer ratings of health and sickness: can other people tell us anything about our health that we don't already know?
    Ian Brissette
    Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Dept of Psychology, Inst for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
    Health Psychol 22:471-8. 2003
    ..This association was independent of participants' self-rated health as well as demographics, self-reported health conditions, years of smoking, physical limitations, body mass index, optimism, and affect...