The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
General Public ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Popular Media

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology studies the burgeoning field of positive psychology, which, in recent years, has transcended academia to capture the imagination of the general public. The book provides a roadmap for the psychology needed by the majority of the population—those who don’t need treatment, but want to achieve the lives to which they aspire. The articles summarize all of the relevant literature in the field, and each is essentially defining a lifetime of research. The content’s breadth and depth provide a cross-disciplinary look at positive psychology from diverse fields and all branches of psychology, including social, clinical, personality, counseling, school, and developmental psychology. Topics include not only happiness—which has been perhaps misrepresented in the popular media as the entirety of the field—but also hope, strengths, positive emotions, life longings, creativity, emotional creativity, courage, and more, plus guidelines for applying what has worked for people across time and cultures.

scholarly journals Penciptaan Film Animasi 2D Diadaptasi Dari Puisi “Engkau”

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Muhamad Hadi Hibatullah ◽  
Tanto Harthoko ◽  
Agnes Karina Pritha Atmani
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
2D Animation ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Film Making

Abstract Literary works adapted to the film are familiar to the general public. In response to the problem, the animated film "Engkau" is made with the intention to make it easier for a poet to deliver the message of his poems in audiovisual form to the reader in an interesting and unique way through the animated film which is one of the popular media as a medium of delivery. The animated film " Engkau " is a film adapted from a poem entitled "Engkau" in a collection of poems "Aku Ingin Mencumbu Waktu" with 2D animation techniques.The poem entitled " Engkau " from the collection of poems "Aku Ingin Mencumbu Waktu " tells a feeling of someone who admires and loves someone deeply, no matter how long it can prevent and keep him from loving. The poem " Engkau " in each verse will later be adapted into a 2D animated film, making this animation different from the others. Keywords: poetry, adaptation of literary works, poetry animation, poem "engkau"Abstrak Karya sastra yang diadaptasi ke film sudah tidak asing lagi bagi masyarakat umumnya. Menyikapi masalah tersebut, film animasi “Engkau” dibuat dengan maksud untuk mempermudah seorang penyair menyampaikan pesan dari puisinya dalam bentuk audiovisual kepada pembaca secara menarik dan unik melalui film animasi yang merupakan salah satu media yang populer sebagai media penyampaian. Film animasi “Engkau” merupakan film yang diadaptasi dari puisi yang berjudul sama “Engkau” dalam kumpulan puisi “Aku Ingin Mencumbu Waktu” dengan teknik animasi 2D.Puisi yang berjudul “Engkau” dari kumpulan puisi “Aku Ingin Mencumbu Waktu” menceritakan sebuah perasaan seseorang yang mengagumi dan mencintai seseorang secara mendalam, tidak memperdulikan waktu dapat mencegah dan menghambatnya untuk tetap mencintai. Puisi “Engkau” dalam setiap baitnya nanti akan adaptasi menjadi sebuah film animasi 2D, menjadikan animasi ini berbeda dengan yang lain. Kata kunci: puisi, adaptasi karya sastra, animasi puisi, puisi “engkau”

scholarly journals Positive Psychology 2.0 in a Foreign Language Classroom: Students’ Emotional Experience in English Classroom Interaction in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingna Wang ◽  
Mateusz Marecki
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
English Language ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Reflective Journals

The second wave of positive psychology (PP 2.0) focuses on the way positive and negative psychology complement each other in social contexts. It offers a balanced interactive model that aims at enhancing the optimal learning outcome through the interplay of positive and negative emotions. Building on a large qualitative study of students’ and teachers’ experiences in EFL classrooms in China, this paper argues that adopting the principles of PP 2.0 could deepen our understanding of learners’ emotional experience in SLA. Using one illustrative case, it shows the dynamic and complexity of students’ shifting emotions as they interact in the classroom over a span of 2 months. One major finding is that the students’ positive emotions could transcend negative emotions and influence their engagement in classroom interaction. This study contributes to the existing research into emotional experiences of classroom interaction that integrates the observable, reflective, and participatory. It draws on interrelated sets of data, including a student and teacher profile questionnaire, classroom observation and recording, student and teacher reflective journals documenting their classroom interaction experiences, and stimulated recall interviews based on recordings and reflective journals. The study in the first place has implications for English teachers and teacher trainers in China and abroad as well as researchers interested in the role of emotional experience in English language learning and teaching.

How to Increase Authentic Self-Esteem

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-90
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Mruk
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
Practical Level

Chapter 4 is the heart of the book. It takes the material presented in the first three chapters concerning self-esteem as a relationship between competence and worthiness, healthy self-control, the four sources of self-esteem, and self-esteem moments to a practical level. The chapter shows how individuals can increase self-esteem by developing competence and improving a sense of worthiness no matter what type of self-esteem problem they may currently suffer. How to identify self-esteem traps that lessen competence or worthiness and then break free of them are discussed. The material also includes step-by-step activities, and exercises for increasing self-esteem that are based on solid empirical work in cognitive and learning psychology. These activities include material from positive psychology concerning how positive emotions, especially courage, and positive upward cycles of behavior, can facilitate change.

scholarly journals To Be Happy: A Case Study of Entrepreneurial Motivation and Entrepreneurial Process from the Perspective of Positive Psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Su ◽  
Shengmei Liu ◽  
Shujun Zhang ◽  
Lingling Liu
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Entrepreneurial Motivation ◽  
Wealth Maximization ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Perspective

The pursuit of wealth maximization is considered to be the greatest driving force of entrepreneurship. However, this economic rational perspective cannot sufficiently answer why potential or continuous entrepreneurs still choose entrepreneurship or even continuous entrepreneurship in the face of high failure rate and tremendous uncertainty. On the basis of the dynamic process of entrepreneurship and the perspective of positive psychology, this study attempts to interpret the sustained motivation mechanism of entrepreneurs. This study uses multiple cases to investigate the emotion, cognition, and behavior of entrepreneurial process. Through NVivo software and emotion dictionary, more than 27,000 micro blogs (Weibo) of six entrepreneurs were analyzed, and the model of positive emotion in entrepreneurial process was constructed. The findings are as follows. (1) In the process of establishing a business, entrepreneurs can persist in a highly uncertain environment by acquiring positive emotions. That is, the motivation of sustainable entrepreneurship originates from the emotion of happiness and satisfaction that entrepreneurs obtain. (2) Positive emotions affect the formation and expansion of key activities of entrepreneurship through cognition and then persist with entrepreneurship. Specifically, positive emotion promotes the formation of entrepreneurial intention by expanding cognitive structure, intuitive processing, and analytical processing to promote the acquisition of entrepreneurial resources and the expansion of entrepreneurial ability. (3) In the process of entrepreneurship, emotional return is a performance dimension parallel to economic return. This conclusion provides a new perspective towards revealing the entrepreneurial motivation of entrepreneurs in highly ambiguous environments.

The Impact of the Internet on Politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh S. Raisinghani ◽  
Randy Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Campaigns And Elections ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

The Internet is now one of the most popular media outlets for campaigning and elections, and may soon be used for electronic voting. The scope of this paper is to examine the impact of the Internet on American politics relative to campaigns and elections by conducting the relevant literature review and synthesis. It will attempt to follow the progression of the Internet’s role in politics, and identify both positive and negative impacts. It will assess what the Internet has changed, and conversely, what it has not changed and study the impact of the Internet in terms of candidates, strategists, media, citizens, and activists.

Experience design and the dimensions of transformative festival experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 2881-2901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Neuhofer ◽  
Krzysztof Celuch ◽  
Thuy Linh To
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Transformative Experience ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Human Transformation

Purpose In the emerging transformation economy, there is a shift from staging memorable experiences for many to eliciting life-transformative events for one. This study aims to understand how transformative experiences can be guided and what prerequisites are needed to elicit human transformation when designing experiences. This study borrows positive psychology as a theoretical lens to explore festivals as a prime context for liminal transformative experiences in the hospitality context. Design/methodology/approach A constructivist qualitative research design was used through 31 in-depth interviews. To ensure experience recollection, memory formation and integration of the experience into long-term transformative effects, all interviewees had attended an electronic dance music festival in the past 12 months. Findings Guided by the positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishments (PERMA) model, the thematic analysis revealed a series of psychological and contextual dimensions around PERMA and liminality that need to occur for transformative experiences, personal growth and self-transcendence to happen. Practical implications This study provides a guideline for event organisers and experiences designers to intentionally design and occasion positive human experiences in temporal and spatial liminal hospitality consumption contexts. Psychological and contextual dimensions are identified as critical factors in facilitating human transformation. Originality/value This paper bridges the emerging transformation economy, experience design and positive psychology. Grounded in PERMA, the study offers a novel theoretical model that serves as a framework for both transformative experience research and practical experience design.

Organizational and Individual Level Antecedents of Psychological Capital and its Associated Outcomes: Development of a Conceptual Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urmila Rani Srivastava ◽  
Vandana Maurya
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

The importance of positivity in life has been recognized long time back with the pioneering works of Seligman. Positive psychology as a field was founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within them, and enhance their experiences of love, work and play. However, the potential need to incorporate the principles of positive psychology to enhance the lives of employees at workplace has been identified very lately. This review article starts with the journey from positive psychology to positive organizational behaviour (POB) followed by the elaborated conceptual development of psychological capital (PsyCap) and its uniqueness in relation to other positive constructs. Next section of the article presents evidence of major theoretical contributions in developing the field of POB and PsyCap along with distinction between states versus trait paradigm in Psychology. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of recently introduced concept of PsyCap and reveal its antecedents and consequences. We have synthesized and integrated recent empirical research examining the nature of the construct of PsyCap and develop a conceptual framework regarding its individual and organizational antecedents and consequences for further understanding of the relevant issues in the area of PsyCap and POB. The organizational level antecedents of PsyCap included in this article are work engagement, organizational justice, workplace social support and authentic leadership. Likewise, individual level antecedents of PsyCap covered in this article are sense of humour and positive emotions. The major potential outcomes of PsyCap in the present article included both desirable (mental health, organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB), creative performance and ethical performance) and undesirable (incivility) work-related organizational outcomes. Several preliminary propositions have been offered to guide future research and the role of PsyCap within a broad theoretical and empirical context is discussed. Finally, we have discussed the gaps in the relevant literature, major issues for future research on PsyCap along with implications and interventions about how management can enhance each within their employees for performance management, leadership development and HR development.

scholarly journals The Intertwined Relationship Between Job Crafting, Work-Related Positive Emotions, and Work Engagement. Evidence from a Positive Psychology Intervention Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Costantini ◽  
Riccardo Sartori
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Positive Psychology Intervention ◽  
Public Organisation ◽  
Emotions In The Workplace ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: The present study examines the impact of a positive psychology intervention on job crafting, positive emotions and work engagement. Design: A sample of 43 employees working in a public organisation received a three day-long resource-based intervention grounded on meaningfulness and practical exercises. Findings: Results showed that the intervention had a positive effect on job crafting, positive job-related affective well-being and work engagement. Moreover, findings from a mediation model show that the intervention was effective in sustaining work engagement resulting from experienced positive emotions, which in turn resulted from job crafting behaviours. Originality/Value: To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate the intertwined relationships between job crafting behaviours, positive emotions in the workplace, and work engagement. Moreover, our findings provide evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed positive psychology intervention to support work engagement resulting from proactive adjustment to the work environment and the positive emotions deriving from it.

scholarly journals Factor Structure of the “Top Ten” Positive Emotions of Barbara Fredrickson

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leopold Helmut Otto Roth ◽  
Anton-Rupert Laireiter
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Cluster Solution ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Theoretical Significance

In order to contribute to the consolidation in the field of Positive Psychology, we reinvestigated the factor structure of top 10 positive emotions of Barbara Fredrickson. Former research in experimental settings resulted in a three-cluster solution, which we tested with exploratory and confirmatory methodology against different factor models. Within our non-experimental data (N = 312), statistical evidence is presented, advocating for a single factor model of the 10 positive emotions. Different possible reasons for the deviating results are discussed, as well as the theoretical significance to various subfields in Positive Psychology (e.g., therapeutical interventions). Furthermore, the special role of awe within the study and its implications for further research in the field are discussed.

scholarly journals Beeldvorming over archeologie, beeldvorming bij archeologen

Paleo-aktueel ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Jana Esther Fries
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Media Professionals ◽  
The Way

Imaging of archaeology, imaging by archaeologists. Among the general public and in the popular media, archaeology has a quite positive image, but one that is far from the realities of the everyday work of professional archaeologists. In this paper, I explore how that biased image became established and what role media professionals and archaeologists play in maintaining it. Further, I discuss what effect the image of excavation as the central, if not the only, aspect of archaeology has and has had on the careers of female archaeologists. Finally, I argue for self-reflection about our professional identities and the way we present our work.

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