Positive Psychology

By D. Becker, J. Marecek. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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The role of positive and negative emotions in life satisfaction judgment across nations. (2008, background): “According to the advocates of positive psychology (e.g., Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000; Seligman, Parks, & Steen, 2005), positive experience is an important route to greater happiness and life satisfaction.”
The Impact of Business School Students’ Psychological Capital on Academic Performance (2012, background): “The focus is on optimal human functioning, as opposed to pathological human functioning (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).”
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “Positive psychology, the study of well-being (Gable & Haidt, 2005; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), which includes investigating salutogenic mental states, may offer a useful lens through which to explore and empirically inquire into the relationship between aspects of STEs, well-being, and…”
Perceived severity of various bullying behaviours at work and the relevance of exposure to bullying (2009, background): “…among the different hierarchical levels of organizations, and the clear distinction between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour could aid the creation of common internal policies and codes of conduct in order to try to promote psychological well-being (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).”
Can Positive Employees Help Positive Organizational Change? Impact of Psychological Capital and Emotions on Relevant Attitudes and Behaviors (2008, background): “Based on positive psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), we propose the newly emerging fields of positive organizational scholarship (Cameron & Caza, 2004; Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003; Roberts, 2006) and positive organizational behavior (Luthans, 2002a, 2002b; Nelson & Cooper, 2007;…”
The Social Psychology of Compassion (2007, background): “We must balance these negative elements with a focus on altruism, compassion, resilience, success, and thriving (Seligman, 2003; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).”
Entrepreneurs as authentic leaders: impact on employees' attitudes (2006, background): “What is an authentic leader? In recent years, positive psychology (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2000; Sheldon and King, 2001; Snyder and Lopez, 2002) has emerged to counter the prevailing negativity in the field by looking at what is right (rather than dysfunctional) with people, and emphasizing a”
The Development and Resulting Performance Impact of Positive Psychological Capital. (2010, background): “Right around the turn of the last century (e.g., see Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000; Sheldon & King, 2001; Snyder & Lopez, 2002), the field of psychology began to place greater emphasis on examining what was right with people and what contributes to human flourishing and growth potential.”
Second wave positive psychology’s (PP 2.0) contribution to counselling psychology (2019, background): “More specifically, the two pillars of PP 2.0 are existential positive psychology (Wong, 2009, 2016a) and indigenous psychology (Chang, Downey, Hirsch, & Lin, 2016; Wong, 2013, 2016b).”
Dimensionality of the Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analyses (2010, background): ““Treatment is not just fixing what is broken; it is nurturing what is best” (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000, p. 7).”
Contagion effect of global leaders' positive psychological capital on followers: does distance and quality of relationship matter? (2013, methodology): “Drawing from positive psychology (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000), Luthans et al.”
The Relations Among Feminist Identity Development, Gender-Role Orientation, and Psychological Well-Being in Women (2006, background): “The positive psychology perspective emphasizes aspects of the human condition that make life worth living and help an individual feel happy and fulfilled (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).”
The Engine of Well-Being (2012, background): “The pace at which the field has grown has been rapid, in part because positive psychology afforded opportunities for researchers to investigate new topics that had previously been shunned (Gable & Haidt, 2005).”
Associations between religiosity, mental health, and subjective well-being among Arabic samples from Egypt and Kuwait (2012, background): “…of Happiness; Veenhoven, 2002) have been published (Argyle, 2002; Aspinwall & Staudinger, 2003; Chang, 2001; Diener, Lucas, & Oishi, 2002; Gillham, 2000; Lopez & Snyder, 2003; Seligman, 2000; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000; Snyder, 2000; Snyder & McCullough, 2000; Veenhoven, 2008, 2010).”
Meaning Therapy: An Integrative and Positive Existential Psychotherapy (2010, background): “For example, Meaning Therapy integrates positive psychotherapy (Seligman et al. 2006; Wong 2009a) seamlessly with the usual clinical psychology practices within a dual-system framework which optimizes the interactions between approach and avoidance systems.”