Happiness Donut: A Confucian Critique of Positive Psychology.

A Critique of Positive Psychology— or ‘The New Science of Happiness’

This paper argues that the new science of positive psychology is founded on a whole series of fallacious arguments; these involve circular reasoning, tautology, failure to clearly define or properly apply terms, the identification of causal relations where none exist, and unjustified generalisation. Instead of demonstrating that positive attitudes explain achievement, success, well-being and ha...

Prescribing happiness: positive psychology and family medicine.

Although mental health promotion is consistent with the philosophy of family medicine, it is largely unclear what behaviors or interventions comprise mental health promotion in practice. A recent effort in psychology, known as "positive psychology," has endeavored to better understand happiness, meaning in life, character strengths, and how these all can be developed. Because happiness is assoc...

A Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology

The effectiveness of positive psychology of happiness and hopefulness of elderly people in elderly care centers

Introduction: Hopefulness and happiness can affect the quality of life of people, especially the elderly. Since positivist psychology creates a wide range of strategies to increase happiness, hopefulness, and other positive emotions, so considering the importance of aging and the psychological issues of the elderly, the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psycholo...

The effectiveness of positive psychology of happiness and quality of life of elderly people in elderly care centers

Interdiction: To affect the quality of life of people such as happiness and enjoyment of life, considering the importance of aging and psychological issues of the elderly, this study aims to investigate the effect of group training based on positive psychology on happiness, quality of life of the elderly Shiraz was done. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental study in which the study pop...