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Positive Psychology and Health Psychology: A Fruitful Liaison
Shelley E. Taylor,David K. Sherman +1 more
- pp 305-319
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The article was published on 2012-09-27. It has received 29 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: School psychology & Differential psychology.read more
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Too Much of a Good Thing The Challenge and Opportunity of the Inverted U
Adam M. Grant,Barry Schwartz +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that for psychology in general and positive psychology in particular, Aristotle’s idea of the mean may serve as a useful guide for developing both a descriptive and a prescriptive account of happiness and success.
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Mental Health Promotion in Public Health: Perspectives and Strategies From Positive Psychology
Rosemarie Kobau,Martin E. P. Seligman,Christopher Peterson,Ed Diener,Matthew M. Zack,Daniel P. Chapman,William W. Thompson +6 more
TL;DR: The asset-based paradigms of positive psychology offer new approaches for bolstering psychological resilience and promoting mental health.
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The value of positive psychology for health psychology: progress and pitfalls in examining the relation of positive phenomena to health.
TL;DR: This article considers research on optimism, sense of coherence, and posttraumatic growth that predates the contemporary emphasis on positive psychology, but has clear and increasingly well-supported connections to health psychology and examines several potential mechanisms through which such positive phenomena may influence the etiology, progression, and management of illness.
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Positive organizational psychology, behavior, and scholarship: A review of the emerging literature and evidence base
Stewart I. Donaldson,Ia Ko +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the scholarly literature published between 2001 and 2009 on positive organizational psychology to provide a detailed picture of the current state of the field, and found that there is a growing body of scholarly literature and an emerging empirical evidence base on topics related to positive organizations.
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Walking the Tightrope Between Feeling Good and Being Accurate: Mood-As-A-Resource in Processing Persuasive Messages
TL;DR: Three studies investigated the influence of mood states on the processing of positive and negative information regarding caffeine consumption and on the impact of this information on one's mood, attitudes, and intentions and results were consistent with the predictions of the mood-as-a-resource hypothesis.
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Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies.
TL;DR: A scale measuring dispositional optimism, defined in terms of generalized outcome expectancies, was used in a longitudinal study of symptom reporting among a group of undergraduates and predicted that subjects who initially reported being highly optimistic were subsequently less likely to report being bothered by symptoms.
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Prediction of goal-directed behavior: Attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control
Icek Ajzen,Thomas J. Madden +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of planned behavior, an extension of Ajzen and Fishbein's (1980, Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior Englewood-Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall) theory of reasoned action, was tested in two experiments.
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Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents
Lisa F. Berkman,S L Syme +1 more
TL;DR: The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts.
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Stress, coping, and social support processes: where are we? What next?
TL;DR: Comparing comparative analysis, optimal matching analysis, and event-structure analysis are new techniques which may help advance research in these broad topic areas and enhance the effectiveness of coping and social support interventions.