A Primer in Positive Psychology

By Christopher Peterson. 2006

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Positive Organizational Behavior in the Workplace (2007, background): “For example, C. Peterson (2006) notes that PA proves highly stable across weeks, months, years, and even decades.”
Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction in twenty-seven nations (2009, background): “The present paper reports some preliminary crossnational data based on a different premise, namely that there are altogether different ways to be happy (Guignon, 1999; Peterson, 2006; Russell, 1930; Seligman, 2002).”
Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the life satisfaction and well-being of adolescents (2011, methodology): “Similarly, Peterson (2006) has noted that research to date has demonstrated that the consequences and correlates of character strengths are positive in nature and therefore ‘the implication is that we should develop and use as many strengths of character as possible’ (p. 157).”
Evaluating Positive Psychology Interventions at Work: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2019, background): “The overarching aim of positive psychology is to study what makes life worth living, juxtaposed to the repair-focus (e.g., treating depression) traditionally found in psychological research (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2000; Peterson 2006).”
Positive organizational psychology, behavior, and scholarship: A review of the emerging literature and evidence base (2010, background): “Peterson (2006) maintains that the last pillar facilitates the first two pillars to promote human flourishing.”
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL: MEASUREMENT AND RELATIONSHIP WITH PERFORMANCE AND SATISFACTION (2007, background): “Conceptually, one way that this higherorder construct can be differentiated from other constructs in positive psychology (Peterson, 2006; Peterson & Seligman, 2004; Snyder & Lopez, 2002) involves focusing on the state-like versus trait-like distinction made in this literature.”
Character Strengths: Research and Practice (2009, background): “It is already clear that while all strengths of character contribute to fulfillment, certain character strengths are more robustly linked to well-being and flourishing of young people than are others (Park & Peterson, 2006c).”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “…the intense research focus on psychopathology (Seligman, 1999), positive psychology called for an emphasis on what is good about people (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000; Sheldon & King, 2001) and was described by Peterson (2006) as ‘the scientific study of what goes right in life’ (p. 4).”
Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS): Adaptation and Validation of the German Version and the Development of a Peer-Rating Form (2010, methodology): “The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005a) consists of 240 items for the self-assessment of the 24 character strengths (10 items per strength) included in the classification of Peterson and Seligman (2004). The VIA-IS uses a 5-point Likert-style format (v”
The positive educational practices framework: A tool for facilitating the work of educational psychologists in promoting pupil wellbeing (2008, background): “Many of the components of positive psychology are not new, but Peterson (2006) and Linley & Joseph (2004) believe that it is a useful umbrella term that has the potential to unite a range of related but disparate directions in theory and research about what makes life most worth living.”
Pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. (2010, background): “One limitation of the single-dimension approach is the potential confounding of normal narcissism with the absence of pathological narcissism (Hatcher & Rogers 2009, Peterson 2006).”
Psychological ownership: theoretical extensions, measurement and relation to work outcomes (2009, unknown): “…(e.g., Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007), positive organizational scholarship (e.g., Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003), character strengths and virtues (e.g., Peterson, 2006; Peterson & Seligman, 2004) and psychological well-being (e.g., Quick & Quick, 2004; Wright & Cropanzano, 2004; Wright, 2005).”
Two traditions of happiness research, not two distinct types of happiness (2009, unknown): “Certainly, the criticisms raised by Keyes can be levied at almost every reference to Artistotle’s work on eudaimonia in the psychology literature (e.g., Compton, 2004; Peterson, 2006; Ryan & Deci, 2001; Ryan, Huta, & Deci, 2008; Snyder & Lopez, 2007; Waterman, 1993, 2007; Waterman, Schwartz, & Conti”
The science of self-help: Translating positive psychology research into increased individual happiness (2014, background): “Savoring aims to intensify (through focused awareness) and prolong (through elaboration skills) momentary pleasurable experiences (Peterson, 2006).”