The History of Positive Psychology: Truth Be Told

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Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neoliberal governmentality (2011, background): “Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and proponents of the movement for self-realization in the 1960s and 1970s had argued for the need to overcome the self-recrimination imposed on the individual by demanding social norms, and embrace the unconditional acceptance of the individual through a client-centered ”
Systems informed positive psychology (2020, background): “The positive lens on human life While the field of PP was officially founded as a subdiscipline of psychology in 1998, the perspective and principles underlying the field have existed throughout history (e.g., Froh, 2004; Kristjánsson, 2012).”
The Efficacy of Multi-component Positive Psychology Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (2020, background): “Considering the explicit call for more rigorous research methods to study well-being which is often heard in positive psychology (Diener 2009; Froh 2004; Linley and Joseph 2004; Linley et al. 2006), we recommend that future studies should at least be based on a power-analysis to avoid the risk that ”