POSITIVITY AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS. Proceedings XX NATIONAL CONGRESS ITALIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CLINICAL AND DYNAMIC SECTION URBINO - 7/9 SEPTEMBER 2018 Abstracts
Introduction: Positive Orientation is a general tendency to react to life experiences in a positive way,
a rather pervasive way of looking at and facing reality, framing events, interpreting and evaluating
oneself and subjective, personal and interpersonal experience, past and future (Caprara, 2009). It is
not just a good indicator of the optimal functioning of the individual but promotes such adaptation.
In fact, several results show that people with higher scores on this scale experience greater positive