What does LOT stand for?

Life Orientation Test

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Using the Life Orientation Test Revised Questionnaire to measure optimism and cynical hostility, researchers categorized scores into quartiles: high scores of 26 or more were considered optimists; scores of 24-25 were considered mid-high; scores of 22-23 were considered mid-low; and scores below 22 were considered pessimists.

Optimistic women live longer, healthier

Optimism Appears To Lower Women's Risk Of Heart Disease

Students were asked to respond to the 12-item Life Orientation Test (Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) at Wave I to assess whether they are optimists or pessimists.

Predicting academic success in undergraduates

The Life Orientation Test (LOT) was first developed by Scheier and Carver (1985) to assess the construct of dispositional optimism, which was conceptualized as positive outcome expectancies having important health implications.

Relative predictive power of the optimism versus the pessimism index ...