Tracing the size, reach, impact, and breadth of positive psychology

By Reuben D. Rusk, L. Waters. 2013

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Systems informed positive psychology (2020, background): “One of the core claims made by PP scholars and practitioners to distinguish the field from the multi-billion-dollar self-help industry is that it is scientific (e.g., Rusk & Waters, 2013; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “In a large-scale review of positive psychology (n = 18,000+ studies), Rusk and Waters (2013) found that suffering was a common feature in positive psychology research and many of the studies in their review focused on positive processes that help individuals recover and rebuild from adversity…”
Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity (2020, background): “The speed and scale of the uptake of PP shows it has filled a real academic, personal, and professional need (Lomas & Ivtzan, 2016a), affording it a place of increasing power as it reaches arenas such as education, business, and public policy (Rusk & Waters, 2013).”
An applied framework for Positive Education (2013, background): “…health consists of the presence of wellbeing in addition to the absence of pathology and illness (Keyes, 2006), and the emergence of the Positive Psychology movement has seen a significant redirection of scientific inquiry towards the exploration of optimal human functioning (Rusk & Waters, 2013).”
Positive education: Learning and teaching for wellbeing and academic mastery (2018, background): “The rapid growth of positive psychology and its applications in different fields is clearly evident (Donaldson, Dollwet, & Rao, 2015; Rusk & Waters, 2013).”
A psycho-social system approach to well-being: Empirically deriving the Five Domains of Positive Functioning (2015, background): “However, as PERMA focuses upon the end state of well-being (which Seligman defines by PERMA), it provides limited insight into the psycho-social processes that people undertake to achieve gains in each PERMA element. For example, a wide variety of processes and interventions influence positive emoti”
Effectiveness of positive psychology interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, background): “The growth of this field has been vast and rapid (Rusk & Waters, 2013).”
Understanding optimal human functioning – The ‘call for qual’ in exploring human flourishing and well-being (2017, background): “For example, Rusk and Waters (2013) found over 18,000 peer-reviewed articles that classified as studying positive psychology topics.”
Defining the ‘positive’ in positive psychology: Part I. A descriptive analysis (2016, background): “It has effected a shift in the balance of empirical studies in psychology toward topics like positive emotions, character strengths, engagement, and meaning (Donaldson, Dollwet, & Rao, 2015; Rusk & Waters, 2013).”
SEARCH: A Meta-Framework and Review of the Field of Positive Education (2019, background): “Positive education is a growing field according to two recent reviews of the positive psychology literature (Donaldson et al. 2015; Rusk and Waters 2013).”