Principia

Principia CC — Optimism

Principia (generated) · 2026 · Optimism — general expectation that good things will happen in the future

Principia CC Instrument · license CC0-1.0 · calibration pending
L1-generated (PRN-157): LLM-authored from construct + design rules + public-domain exemplars; passed the item-quality linter (≥B) + anti-derivative novelty gate. NOT yet empirically calibrated (PRN-158). Design-quality gated, not yet empirically validated — reliability and validity are earned from data. Pilot it via POST /api/v1/methods/item-calibration to calibrate.

Anatomy

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Fig. Principia CC — Optimism → its items → the construct(s) they measure. Click a construct to follow it.

Measures this construct

Items

Each item shows its design grade (item-quality linter) and keying. Discrimination/difficulty appear once the instrument is calibrated on pilot data.

  1. I believe good things are coming my way. grade A (positive-keyed)
  2. I often expect positive outcomes in my life. grade B (positive-keyed)
  3. I trust that challenges will lead to better times. grade A (positive-keyed)
  4. I look forward to what tomorrow may bring. grade A (positive-keyed)
  5. I tend to worry that things will not go well. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  6. I often think that my efforts will not pay off. grade B (reverse-keyed)
  7. I feel that bad luck is more common for me. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  8. I struggle to see the bright side of situations. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  9. I doubt that positive changes will happen in my life. grade A (reverse-keyed)

Reliability & validity

Reliability
Not recorded
Validity
Not recorded

Items measuring this instrument

No canonical survey items linked to this instrument yet. Item-level dedup (PRN-050) derives canonical items from instruments that carry sample_items[]; coverage fills as the curator enriches instrument rows with item text.

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