The Role of Positive and Negative Affectivity, Optimism, Pessimism, and Information Processing Styles in Student Psychological Adjustment

AimThe aim of this study was to investigate the role of positive and negative emotion, pessimism and optimism, and information processing styles in student psychological adjustment. Method: The research sample consisted of 400 students of Tabriz University that were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Positive and negative affect scale (PANAS), Life Orientation-Revised (LOT-R), California Psychological Test (CPI), and Perceive Modes of Processing Inventory (PMPI) scales were used for collecting of data. The data were analyzed by multiple regression and Pearson‘s correlation coefficient methods.Results: Findings showed that Optimism, positive emotions, rational information processing style and experimental information processing style can significantly predict the psychological adjustment respectively. Conclusion: These results suggest that student's psychological adjustment is Significantly influenced by their emotional, attributive, and cognitive factors.