positive-psychology - Concepts
Explore concepts tagged with "positive-psychology"
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Concepts
- Broaden and Build - Barbara Fredrickson's theory that positive emotions expand awareness and build lasting resources.
- Positivity - A mental orientation that focuses on favorable aspects of situations, maintains hopeful expectations, and cultivates positive emotions.
- Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman's framework combining positive emotions, engagement, and meaning for wellbeing.
- Celebrate Your Wins - The practice of acknowledging and being proud of your successes, no matter how small.
- Gratitude Science - The research field studying the causes, effects, and mechanisms of gratitude.
- Positivity Ratio - The balance of positive to negative emotional experiences that predicts flourishing.
- Happiness Habits - Regular practices scientifically shown to increase sustained wellbeing over time.
- Learned Optimism - The practice of cultivating an optimistic explanatory style by challenging pessimistic thoughts, as developed by Martin Seligman.
- Savoring - The practice of deliberately attending to and enhancing positive experiences.
- Positive Emotions - Pleasant emotional states like joy, gratitude, and contentment that enhance wellbeing and capability.
- Self-Determination Theory - A motivational framework identifying three innate psychological needs - autonomy, competence, and relatedness - that drive optimal human functioning.
- PERMA Model - Martin Seligman's framework for well-being based on five pillars: Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment.
- Languishing - A state of mental stagnation and emptiness characterized by a sense of joylessness and aimlessness without meeting the criteria for clinical depression.
- Character Strengths - The VIA classification of 24 positive personality traits organized under six core virtues.
- Happiness Equation - The formula H = S + C + V suggesting happiness comes from set-point, conditions, and voluntary activities.
- Happiness Advantage - The finding that happiness leads to success more than success leads to happiness.
- Gratitude Practice - Intentional activities designed to cultivate and express appreciation for life's positives.
- Happiness Practices - Specific activities and exercises designed to cultivate greater wellbeing and life satisfaction.
- Psychological Capital - A positive psychological state comprising four resources: Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, and Optimism (HERO) that predict performance and well-being.
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