The Hard Road to the Good Life: The Happy, Mature Person

By L. King. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The content and processes of autobiographical reasoning in narrative identity (2008, background): “Due to the press for personal consistency (e.g., Pasupathi & Mansour, 2006; Swann, 1997) and the effort involved in storying self-change (e.g., King, 2001; McLean & Thorne, 2003), we expected personal growth connections would take more effort.”
Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “Certainly, it seems clear that the very experience of happiness might be rendered qualitatively different when it is experienced through the lens of maturity (King, 2001).”
Contextualized Personality, beyond Traits (2015, background): “King (2001), for example, argued that the ‘good life’ is represented by both happiness (e.g. well-being) and maturity (e.g. ego development; Loevinger, 1976)—two constructs that are empirically and conceptually distinct.”
Authoring a Second Chance in Life: Emotion and Transformational Processing Within Narrative Identity (2006, background): “However, research has suggested that it is when these two narrative identity processes come together within a narrative of a difficult life experience that the most integrative, growth oriented, and transformative form of narrative identity processing occurs (King, 2001; Pals, 2006b).”
Is Searching for Meaning in Life Associated With Reduced Subjective Well-Being? Confirmation and Possible Moderators (2012, background): “Building on these ideas, King (2001) , and Sheldon and Kasser (2001) specify that the pursuit of intrinsic goals promotes happiness and the sense of meaning in life.”
Detecting and constructing meaning in life events (2009, background): “Furthermore, research using community samples has found similar processes in adult narratives of life-changing events (King, 2001).”
Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development (2017, background): “Self-narration describes the process through which individuals phrase, interpret, and evaluate (life) events and their consequences for generalized self-view or identity (King, 2001; McAdams & Olson, 2010; McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007; Pals, 2006).”
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth in Psychotherapy (2005, background): “Adopting a more inclusive, less pathologizing conceptualization (Greening, 2001; King, 2001) of trauma work—as an endeavor that holds the promise of life-affirming benefits as well as sadness and pain—might help clinicians to view themselves, their clients, and their work in new and empowering ways.”
Processes of Identity Development: Where I Am and How I Got There (2012, background): “, King, L. A., Green, M. C., & Barr, S. C. (2002). Personal identity and civic responsibility: ‘‘Rising to the occasion’’ narratives and generativity in community action”
Second Wave Positive Psychology: Exploring the Positive–Negative Dialectics of Wellbeing (2016, background): “’ Empirical work corroborates this insight, revealing diverse problems associated with undue optimism, most relating to an under-appreciation of risk, which can lead to risk-taking behaviour (e.g., smoking; Weinstein et al. 2005). Optimism has thus even been implicated as a mortality-risk: Friedman ”
The Negative Side of Positive Psychology (2004, background): “…the potential for coping, health, and growth to be found in negative experiences (e.g., Aspinwall & Staudinger, 2003b; Carstensen & Charles, 2003; King, 2001; Larsen et al., 2003;Ryff & Singer,2003), then how (we may ask) are positive psychologists different from the negative psychologists…”
Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves: A Process Model of Self-Development (2007, background): “Turning to the emotional aspects of storytelling, like results from the parent-child studies, research suggests that talking about negative past experiences is related to autobiographical reasoning processes that are centrally related to life-story development. For example, Pasupathi (2003) found th”
Emerging Identities: Narrative and Self from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence (2010, background): “As King (2001) pointed out, understanding does not always lead to happiness.”
What is Existential Positive Psychology (2011, unknown): “(King, 2001; Wong, 2009).”