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Positive Psychology

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The Scientific Study of what makes life worth living

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Positive Psychology 2

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Study of the conditions that contribute to flourishing or optimal functioning of people, groups or institutions

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Eudaimonic

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Meaning

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Subjective Well Being

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Positive Affect minus negative affect, life satisfaction (Diener)

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Psychological well being (Ryff)

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self acceptance, positive relations, autonomy, mastery, purpose in life, personal growth

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Well being theory (PERMA)

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Seligman- Positive emotions, engagement, relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment

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Relation of H and E

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Highly correlated, more studies on SWB than eudaimonic

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Meaningfulness vs happiness

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M- thinking about past and future, Happiness- present, Satisfying needs and wants about happiness, but not meaning, stress- M, but lower H, Concerns about personal identity and self expression- M, but not H

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Personality and Happiness

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Extra-version, Openness (not as relevant), Neuroticism- negative effect, agreeableness (smaller effect)

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Factors if someone is happy

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NOT gender, age, income (only up to a certain level), NEA personality, Social relationships most important

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SWB happiness

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Cognitive Appraisal, Emotional Experience

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Happiness breakdown

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50% genetics, 10% life circumstances, 40% actions and thoughts

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what we can control

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Life circumstances (sort of), relationships, thinking style, motivation

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Emotion and mood

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Emotion- brief, Mood- lingering

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Broaden and build

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Positive emotions broaden momentary thought-action repertoire, broadening builds resources (both short and long term)

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Global task

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Look at things more globally (broaden) with positive emotions (except for desire, which narrows)

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Operant Conditioning

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Rewards and Punishments

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To meet needs

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Offer choice, opportunities for self direction, encouraging feedback upon success

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Self Determination Theory

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Well being results from fulfillment of three basic needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness (force for intrinsic motivation)

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Identified

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Completely internalized, but maybe not something you really want to do. Doing taxes.

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Matching Hypothesis

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Goals that better express ourselves, values and needs bring more well being

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Conditions for flow

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Intrinsic interest- autotelic task, Skill-challenge balance, knowing what needs to be done, immediate feedback

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Pollyana Principle

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Pleasantness predominates in thought

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Dispositional Optimism

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The global expectation that good things will be plentiful in the future and bad things scarce

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Attribution theory

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How people explain events and behavior

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ABC Model

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Adversity- any negative event, B- belief about the event, C- consequences- how you feel and behave following that event. Beliefs can be the cause of consequence

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Disputation

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Thought catching, evaluate, generate more accurate explanations

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Penn Resilience Program (PRP) (Seligman)

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Changing thought patterns in middle school children. Fostering optimism. Experiment and follow up- 20% fewer depressive symptoms than no intervention, 10% fewer than PEP

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Defensive Pessimism

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Strategy for coping with anxiety. Low expectations of future events. Need a different strategy than others.

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Strengths of humanity

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One on one relationships - caring

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Strengths of justice

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One to many relationships

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Values vs attitudes

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Values broad and ambiguous, attitudes- favorable or unfavorable evaluations of a specific object or issue.

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Values vs attitudes

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Values broad and ambiguous, attitudes- favorable or unfavorable evaluations of a specific object or issue.

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Trait self esteem

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Overall, intrinsic self esteem. Not specific. Global evaluation of themselves.

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State Self esteem

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How someone feels in the moment, based on a specific reaction to a specific stimulus. False feedback paradigm.

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Measure self esteem

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Rosenberg self esteem scale, social comparisons

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Overall levels of self esteem

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Mid to high range global average, most think themselves above average compared to others.

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Consequences of self esteem

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Increased happiness, increased initiative, but can also cause violence, inability to think they need to work hard. Everything else is a cause, not a consequence.

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Sociometer theory

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Self esteem is a reflection of our social integration. Regulates behaviors to reconnect.

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Defensive self esteem

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Claim of self esteem, defense against insecurities. May be more internal and unconscious (implicit). Narcissism

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Self efficacy

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How do I feel about what I can do? Level of feeling capable to effectively perform tasks. Not global, but domain specific.

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Trait

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Characteristic pattern of thought, feeling and behavior

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Character strengths

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Positive traits

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Classification of strengths

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Ubiquitous (cross cultural value), Fulfilling (related to well being), Morally valued (not just for what it can help you achieve), elevating (using strength does not diminish other people), Trait-like (measurable), Distinct, Paragons and prodigies (see it embodied in a person), enabling institutions

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Temperance

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Modesty, protection against things in excess

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Organismic Integration theory

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Details the different forms of extrinsic motivation and the contextual factors that either inhibit or promote integration and internalization. Scale from Amotivated to Intrinsic

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Flourishing (Keyes)

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Emotional, Psychological, Social

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Introjection

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Based on self esteem. Avoid guilt or anxiety

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Heritability

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set point 98% heritable, happiness 44-53%

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Reading 3- Subjective Well Being

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Deci and Ryan. Factors for intrinsic motivation- autonomy, competence, relatedness, Cognitive Evaluation theory- factors that explain variability in intrinsic motivation,

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Existentialism

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Experience is primary

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Humanism

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Needs and values of people take precedence over material things

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Positive affectivity

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extent to which someone experiences positive moods like joy

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Explanatory style

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Tendency to believe that different events have the same sorts of causes

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Self expressive values

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correspond to one’s need to express talents, capabilities and potentials

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Terminal value

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belief about an ideal state of existence. (a comfortable life, a world at peace, etc.)

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Value self confrontation

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strategy of changing one’s values by exposing them to contradiction among one’s value priorities

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Instrumental values

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Ideal modes of conduct that presumably aid and abet terminal values

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