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Promoting Intellectual Growth in Adulthood
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This paper defined intelligence as the ability to grapple with complexity with respect to the selection and engagement in activities and environments that promote attainment of four characteristics: resources, intimacy, competence and physical health.Abstract:
Intelligence is defined as the ability to grapple with complexity with respect to the selection and engagement in activities and environments that promote attainment of four characteristics. These characteristics of intelligent behaviour incorporate the individual's attainment of: Resources, Intimacy, Competence and Physical Health (RICH). These RICH characteristics encompass all possible human:reinforcers, are relatively obtainable by all individuals, are interrelated and incorporate each other in their definitions, and function to guide the diagnosis of individual deficits.read more
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Predictor variables of happiness and its connection with risk and protective factors for health
TL;DR: Results showed a partial mediational effect of self-esteem in the relation between happiness and psychopathological symptoms, which focuses on the importance of implementing programs to promote feelings of happiness, as well as protective factors for health (self-esteem, cooperation…).
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RICH Theory: The Promotion of Happiness.
Thomas J. Kehle,Melissa A. Bray +1 more
TL;DR: The acronym RICH stands for resources, intimacy, competence, Competence, and health, and these characteristics are purported to define psychological health, which is assumed to be synonymous with happiness.
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Wellness promotion as a life‐long endeavor: Promoting and developing life competencies from childhood
TL;DR: The authors argue for reframing school psychologists as agents-of-change for children's entire life spans through creating positive patterns that promote healthy living, in contrast to the current pathology-driven model of school psychology, may even develop a cadre of healthier professionals.
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Enhancing Subjective Well-Being in Individuals with Asthma.
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory that provides an explanation for the reduction of emotionally triggered asthma through treatments derived from positive psychology is proposed, which is consistent with positive psychology in that it focuses on variables that promote subjective well-being or a satisfying daily life.
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An Academic’s Path
TL;DR: Melissa A. Bray as discussed by the authors is a Professor and Director of the School Psychology Program within the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, who has published or has in the press more than 175 articles, chapters, and reviews, and has presented more than 100 scholarly papers at national and international conferences.
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Massive IQ gains in 14 nations: What IQ tests really measure.
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The Stability of Individual Differences in Mental Ability from Childhood to Old Age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish Mental Survey
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Age differences in the structure of intelligence: influences of information processing speed
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The development of testing as applied to school psychology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present some issues that are believed to be historically important to the development of testing, in particular intelligence testing, and consequently to the practice of school psychology.
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