This research advances the workplace thriving literature by offering a multilevel view regarding impact of positive affective resources on employee and team thriving. We conducted our study with 285 employees from 62 teams to examine model involving relationship between high-activated affect (HAPA) at individual levels. Results demonstrated that HAPA triggered cohesion, which in turn enhanced t...

There is a need for aging theories to become holistic and multidisciplinary with a life span focus. A theory is the construction of explicit explanations in accounting for empirical findings. A good gerontological theory integrates knowledge, tells how and why phenomena are related, leads to prediction, and provides process and understanding. In addition, a good theory must be holistic and take...

The positive youth development perspective, a strength-based relational developmental systems model that focuses on mutually influential relationships between individuals and contexts, has been used to study thriving across the second decade of life. However, more attention has been paid empirically to identifying the features of the individual (e.g., intentional self regulation, hope, or purpo...

The theme of this issue of the Journal is that the experience of adversity (serious stress or trauma, physical or psychological) can sometimes yield benefits to the person who experiences it. My contribution is to make conceptual distinctions among several related-but-not-identical experiences and to raise some issues about how to best conceptualize the topic under discussion. In the latter con...

The presented article aims to introduce a series of questions that derive from context in which “we are what we work” because labour has become the articulating centre life, scale worth; forces at play keep us perpetuating these ways life?; why still trapped ideal stable job as good life? Through an auto-ethnographic artistic research into fictions construct ourselves processes applications, I ...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees. METHODS This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 19...