Spiritual practices and dispositional optimism in an underprivileged population

Arrieta, Gonzalo; Cid, Alejandro; Ponce de León, María Mercedes

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Arrieta, Gonzalo
dc.contributor.author	Cid, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Ponce de León, María Mercedes
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-04T19:44:10Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-04T19:44:10Z
dc.date.issued	2017	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1361
dc.description.abstract	Optimism seems to foster the ability to manage adverse situations better - a finding especially relevant for disadvantaged populations. Employing a unique sample from a small underprivileged village, we study the association between spiritual practices and dispositional optimism. The village belongs to a developing country that is, by far, the most secular country in Latin America: this makes particularly interesting exploring the role of spiritual practices in this context. We find that spiritual practices are positively associated with higher optimism, measured by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R): those who practice spirituality, score, on average, 14.4 percentage points higher on the LOT-R than those who do not. And this association seems to be especially robust in the case of the poor and less educated: those with spiritual practices score 20 percentage points higher on the LOT-R. Thus, the role that spiritual practices may play in dispositional optimism in disadvantaged populations deserves more attention.	es
dc.format.extent	21 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Dispositional optimism	es
dc.subject	Spiritual practices	es
dc.subject	LOT-R	es
dc.subject	Hope	es
dc.subject	Religion	es
dc.subject	Happiness	es
dc.title	Spiritual practices and dispositional optimism in an underprivileged population	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Arrieta, Gonzalo. Stanford University	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cid, Alejandro. Universidad de Montevideo. Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Ponce de León, María Mercedes. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es