Positive Psychology

Positive psychology. An introduction.

A science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions promises to improve quality of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless. The exclusive focus on pathology that has dominated so much of our discipline results in a model of the human being lacking the positive features that make life worth living. Hope, wisdo...

Positive Psychology and Spirituality

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com in some cases. The timeline of psychology graciously marks these theoretical revelations as these theorists devoted their lives to the study of human behavior. Each of these theorists had their own beliefs concerning the behavior of our species, including the why, when, how, and under what circumstances gives rise to a particular behavior. Because o...

Positive Psychology: FAQs

Positive psychology in clinical practice.

Positive psychology is the scientific study of positive experiences and positive individual traits, and the institutions that facilitate their development. A field concerned with well-being and optimal functioning, positive psychology aims to broaden the focus of clinical psychology beyond suffering and its direct alleviation. Our proposed conceptual framework parses happiness into three domain...

CHAPTER 31 Positive Psychology JAIME

In its relatively brief history, positive psychology has used a variety of research method­ ologies to better understand the nature of happiness and the "good life." In the face of scant empirical knowledge of positive emotions (cf. Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999), tightly controlled randomized laboratory studies have begun to establish the causes, cor­ relates, consequences, and basic mecha...