Dear Merisa!

There are, of course, many different questionnaires out there.

However, I personally (and currently) really like the Flourisihing Scale (by Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, et al., 2009), which has also been translated and authorized into different languages, including German (Esch T, Gimpel C, et al, 2013).

And, of course, there is the Orientations to Happiness (OTH) questionnaire (by Peterson, Park, and Seligman, 2005), also translated...

Kind regards, Tobias

I am specifically interested in finding something more multidimensional and believe both Petersen & Seligman specifically look at optimism in general terms, as does Scheier & Carver. I shall look at Diener, thank you so much for coming back to me so soon. Merisa

Almost all of the optimism measures that I am aware of, assess optimism in such vague terms. They are intended to be broad perspectives on the future. There are other types of optimism, however, including explanatory style optimism (retrospective), as well as unrealistic optimism. Several researchers have used vignettes to get at more specific applications of optimism, perhaps requiring the respondent to imagine themselves in a certain situation and then rate their optimism/pessimism for that specific situation. This is the direction that the field needs to go in; that being, assessing the orthogonal and situation-specific effects of optimism.

Thank you so much for confirming my suspicions Jameson, I was wondering if it was my naivety or if that really was the case. I seem to have exhausted avenues at this stage but do have a route to look at coveting a feature coding for my systematic review that could at least look at the evidence in this coveted multidimensional basis. Nice to know I was definitely not missing something big! Thank you for your help.