by Claire Meade | Jan 16, 2010 | Topics
Historically, gratitude has been viewed variously as a social and civic virtue, a motivator of benevolence and both a cognitive and emotional reminder of the social need to reciprocate (Emmons, McCullough, Tsang, 2003). However, from the perspective of psychology, and...
by Claire Beazley | Jan 16, 2010 | Topics
“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional” Anon. One could argue that resilience is the end product of intuitive application of positive psychology to the management of personal adversity. Resilient people are those individuals who display “the capacity to...
by admin | Jan 16, 2010 | Topics
Brian Albuquerque Subjective well-being (SWB) is defined as ‘a person’s cognitive and affective evaluations of his or her life’ (Diener, Lucas, & Oshi, 2002, p. 63). The cognitive element refers to what one thinks about his or her life satisfaction in global terms...
by Katie Hanson | Jan 16, 2010 | Topics
Nietzsche (1997/1889) cited in Haidt (2006, p135) stated that: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. The adversity hypothesis states that people require adversity, trauma and setbacks in order to grow, find fulfilment, develop as a person and find their inner...
by Miriam Akhtar | Nov 22, 2009 | Topics
One of the assignments that students of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the UEL have to complete is creating a mind map of the broad field of Positive Psychology. Below are a few interesting mind maps we have selected. Mind map by Bridget...
by admin | Nov 6, 2009 | Topics
Jody Delichte Subjective well-being (SWB) reflects individuals’ thoughts and feelings of their own life experiences. It combines cognitive judgements and affective reactions in a measurement that includes positive affect, negative affect and life satisfaction (Diener,...
