Ch 1-4 Flashcards
Disease model
Focus is on treating illness and not building strengths
SWB
Assessing a persons life satisfaction and the frequency of positive and negative emotional experiences
The engaged life
Active involvement like work and leisure and relationships with others that express our talents and strengths and that give us meaning and purpose to our lives
The meaningful life
Going beyond our own self interests and preoccupations. A deeper meaning of happiness. Something larger than yourself.
The pleasant life
Understanding the determinants of happiness as a desired state. The good life. What makes a person happy or fulfilled.
Misery index
Info about how many people are suffering from significant problems that happen the quality of their lives
National stats are incomplete for SWB because
They lack positive functioning and strengths
The peak end rule
Suggests people’s emotions are influenced by the intensity and how long the experience lasts
Experience sample methods
Measures that provide a day in the life view of emotions and events as they happen
Day reconstruction method
Combines the accuracy of real time measures with the efficacy of the daily diaries or recordings used
Global measures
Reflect stable personality characteristics
Hedonic happiness asks
If people are happy
Eudaimonic happiness asks
Why people are happy
Self determination theory states
Well being and happiness come from 3 psychological needs; autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
The broaden and build theory states
Positive emotions build physical psychological and social resources
The three components of well being are
Life satisfaction positive affect and negative affect
Autonomy means
Freely chosen activities and self determined life of central importance. Need freedom of action.
Competence means
Effectiveness, achievement and pride needed for success
Life satisfaction
Global judgement of ones life
Positive affect
Experiencing Positive emotions and moods
Problem focused coping is
A psychological resource that eliminates stress at the source
Emotion focused coping is
A psychological resource that includes one trying to change their own emotions and reduce responses to stress
Proactive coping
A psychological resource that tries to prevent stress at source
Positive reappraisal
Reframing problems in a positive light
The buffering hypothesis
A social resource that’s states people who share burdens and have social support reduce stress
Direct effect hypothesis
Social resource that states social support is independent from ones stress level
Flourishing
Loss of ones self in an action
Savoring
Capacity to attend and appreciate positive experiences in life
Languishing
Feelings of emptiness and low zest for life
General theory of positivity
Predicts the divide between human flourishing and languishing among people
Post traumatic growth
Positive growth and enhancement after trauma
The nun study by Danner, Snowdon, & Friesen tested to see
If cheerful people lived longer than gloomy people
Meaning making
A person interprets the event and what it can signify
Negative bias
Putting all attention to negative when there are more positives
Ryff and singer
Recovery or improvement in mental or physical health followed from challenges
Bonnano
Maintain relatively stable and healthy levels of physical psychological functioning despite trauma
Masten
Class of phenomenon characterized by good outcomes despite serious threats to adaptation or development. Also known as ordinary magic
Tedeschi park and Calhoun
Positive outcomes arise from trauma PTG
Kahneman
The peak end wipe and the intensity of the experience. Not how long it lasts
