The how of happiness : a new approach to getting the life you want

By Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2008

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• Meeting the Leadership Challenge of Employee Well-Being Through Relationship PsyCap and Health PsyCap (2013, background): “This is also consistent with the recent views from positive psychology that well-being is determined through a combination of dispositional, situational, and intentional factors (Lyubomirsky, 2007).”
• Contagion effect of global leaders' positive psychological capital on followers: does distance and quality of relationship matter? (2013, background): “Beside the recognized self-fulfilling or Pygmalion effect (Eden 1992), these positive appraisals may promote the global leader’s retention of more positive memory patterns (Lyubomirsky 2007; Diener and Biswas-Diener 2008).”
• The Promise of Sustainable Happiness (2009, background): “The most promising factor for affecting change in chronic happiness, then, is the approximately 40% portion represented by intentional activity (see Figure 63.1; cf. Lyubomirsky, 2008).”
• A Tale of Two Paradigms: The Impact of Psychological Capital and Reinforcing Feedback on Problem Solving and Innovation (2011, unknown): “These intentional activities can increase levels of positivity and well-being in general (Lyubomirsky, 2007), and we propose the resultant increased cognitive, agentic capacity can facilitate more positive appraisals of future circumstances and success expectancies.”
• Burnout and life satisfaction: does gratitude intervention make a difference among Chinese school teachers in Hong Kong? (2011, background): “…hardly be alleviated by positive efforts on the part of individual teachers, there is evidence supporting that intentional activities by individuals contribute more to the pursuit of happiness and well-being when compared with individuals’ life circumstances and situations (see Lyubomirsky, 2007).”
• Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neoliberal governmentality (2011, background): “their own programs of therapeutic self government (Lyubomirsky, 2007).”
• Entrepreneurship and well-being: Past, present, and future (2019, background): “They also tend to be more creative and productive and stay more socially connected (for reviews see De Neve et al., 2013; Lyubomirsky, 2008).”