Outcome Expectancy
Dimension 492 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Outcome Expectancy measures the degree to which an expression conveys anticipation of favorable versus unfavorable results in work, life, or personal efforts. It encompasses confidence that things will go well, doubts about success or security, and adjustment of expectations downward when positive outcomes seem less attainable.
evidence final name · Effort-reward Imbalance
Minimal Outcome Expectancy
Expressions activating this band show little clear anticipation about future results, or only incidental references to outcomes without a stable positive or negative expectation. The expression may mention unrelated beliefs, events, transactions, or general statements rather than a defined outlook on what will happen.
Low Outcome Expectancy
Expressions activating this band convey a fragile or mixed expectation of success, security, or fair treatment, with recurring thoughts that things may not go well. The outlook is uncertain and easily colored by discouragement, poor prospects, or fear of unfavorable outcomes.
Moderate Outcome Expectancy
Expressions activating this band center on evaluating one's likely results in ongoing roles and responsibilities, including doubts about ability, performance, advancement, or future stability. Expectations are present and consequential, but they are qualified by self-questioning and concern about decline.
High Outcome Expectancy
Expressions activating this band focus on consciously revising expectations downward after repeated difficulty, disappointment, or emotional depletion. The expression frames hoped-for results as increasingly unrealistic and may include thoughts of disengaging from the effort altogether.
Very Low Outcome Expectancy
Expressions activating this band depict outcomes as strongly constrained by lowered expectations, with little belief that positive results will occur. The expression presents a settled stance that hopes have been reduced or blown out, leaving a markedly pessimistic outlook.
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Minimal Effort-reward Imbalance: Expressions show no meaningful effort-reward imbalance content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to effort-reward imbalance.
Emerging Effort-reward Imbalance: Effort-reward imbalance is experienced here as physiological and somatic distress, reflecting embodied arousal and clinical-grade symptom intensity. This is the first band where effort-reward imbalance becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band likely reflect physiological and embodied effort-reward imbalance.
Elevated Effort-reward Imbalance: Effort-reward imbalance is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where effort-reward imbalance was characterized by the somatic and physiological form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect effort-reward imbalance at this level of intensity.
Severe Effort-reward Imbalance: Effort-reward imbalance is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, effort-reward imbalance is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect effort-reward imbalance at this level of intensity.