Abstract Why can’t people accordingly get extra happiness when they get extra wealth? The universal low level of employee optimism has increasingly influenced both job performance and organizational effectiveness. Optimism, being a psychological capital, serves as one of the core subjects of positive organizational behavioral study. The learned optimism formation depends on the individual positive thinking in handling all things. Positive thinking is mainly embodied in the four aspects of "language patterns, attention content, rational nature and thinking style", and thus it constitutes four psychological mechanisms of the learned optimism, i.e. “growth-framed positive language mode, selective attention to positive information, rational belief, optimistic explanatory style”. Learned optimism and positive thinking should be as important moderating variable to carry out the series of empirical research in the future, to enrich and improve the existing theory of organizational behavior.
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