“…The five positive self-schema themes include: optimism (e.g., "I believe things will turn out well"), trust (e.g., "I trust other people"), selfefficacy (e.g., "I can respond well to challenges"), success (e.g., "If I try hard I can usually do well"), and worthiness (e.g., "I believe in myself"). The PSQ has demonstrable face, predictive, and discriminant validity and strong reliability (Keyfitz et al 2013) and has been used successfully to measure positive self-schemas in children and adolescents (Friedmann et al 2016;Keyfitz et al 2013;Tomlinson et al 2016). In this study, the PSQ showed good internal consistency (T1 α = .94, T2 α = .95).…”