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Positive psychology: An introduction.
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The authors outline a framework for a science of positive psychology, point to gaps in the authors' knowledge, and predict that the next century will see a science and profession that will come to understand and build the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish.Abstract:
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, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance are ignored or explained as transformations of more authentic negative impulses. The 15 articles in this millennial issue of the American Psychologist discuss such issues as what enables happiness, the effects of autonomy and self-regulation, how optimism and hope affect health, what constitutes wisdom, and how talent and creativity come to fruition. The authors outline a framework for a science of positive psychology, point to gaps in our knowledge, and predict that the next century will see a science and profession that will come to understand and build the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish.read more
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Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: A review of the extant research on youth life satisfaction is provided in this paper, which details how life satisfaction among youth relates to various other important emotional, social, and behavioural constructs.
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Levels in reflection: core reflection as a means to enhance professional growth
Fred A. J. Korthagen,A. Vasalos +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a more fundamental form of reflection is needed, referred to as core reflection, which concurs with the recent emphasis in psychology on attending to people's strengths rather than their deficiencies.
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Positive Adjustment to Threatening Events: An Organismic Valuing Theory of Growth through Adversity:
Stephen Joseph,P. Alex Linley +1 more
TL;DR: A positive psychological theory of growth through adversity is proposed in this article, which posits an intrinsic motivation toward growth, showing how this motivation can be expressed in an organismic valuing theory.
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The Body Appreciation Scale: Development and psychometric evaluation
TL;DR: The Body Appreciation Scale should prove useful for researchers and clinicians interested in positive body image assessment and predicted unique variance in psychological well-being above and beyond extant measures of body image.
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Experimental Analysis of a Web-Based Training Intervention to Develop Positive Psychological Capital
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a core construct of hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resiliency to take positive psychology to the workplace, which they call "psychological capital".
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Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a learned-helplessness model of depression and developed a set of guidelines for depression and learned helplessness, including depression, anxiety and unpredictability, childhood failure, sudden psychosomatic death controllability.