OPTIMIZAM-PESIMIZAM I EMOCIONALNE REAKCIJE NA NEPRIJATNE FILMSKE SCENE

The aim of this research was to examine if there are some differences in a way optimists and pessimists react to unpleasant movie stimuli. The sample was convenient and it consisted of 42 (F=90%) students of psychology, from the Faculty of philosophy in Nish. Age range in the sample was from 18 to 20 (M=19, SD=.541). Instruments used in this research were: Life orientation test (LOT-R: Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) and Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS: Mayer, & Gaschke, 2013) in order to operationalize the mood of the respondents. The stimulus was a scene from the movie Sophie’s Choice, which aimed at inducing a negative affect. From the results we can conclude that the mood of the optimists, after watching movie stimuli, is corrputed, while the mood of the pesimists isn't.So, in the further studies which examine emotion induction through movies, we suggest the inclusion of optimism-pesimism as a control variable.Also, for further studies we suggest the involvement of actors and testing how they react to film stimuli.Cilj ovog istraživanja je bio da se ispita da li se optimist i pesimisti razlikuju u pogledu reakcije na neprijatne filmske stimulus. Uzorak je bio prigodan i činilo ga je 42 (Ž=90%) studenta psihologije, sa Filozofskog fakulteta u Nišu. Raspon starosti u uzorku išao je od 18 do 20 godina (AS=19, SD=.541). Instrumenti korišćeni u ovom istraživanju bili su: Skala životne orijentacije (Life orientation test–Revised, LOT-R: Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) kao i Kratka skala introspekcije rasploženja (Brief Mood Introspection Scale, BMIS: Mayer, & Gaschke, 2013) radi operacionalizacije raspoloženja ispitanika. Stimulus je činila scena iz filma Sofijin izbor, radi indukcije negativnog afekta. Rezultati pokazuju da se raspoloženje optimista kvari posle gledanja isečka iz filma, dok ovo nije slučaj kod pesimista. Usled ovoga za dalja istraživanja indukcije emocija putem filmova predlažemo dodavanje optimizma-pesimizma kao kontrolne varijable. Takođe, za dalja istraživanja predlažemo uključivanje glumaca i ispitivanje njihovih reakcija na filmske stimuluse