A model involving optimism and hope as predictors of depressive symptoms was tested in a sample of 28 male and 67 female primary care patients. Beyond the distinct influence of the two predictors on depressive symptoms optimism and hope were also hypothesized to interact together to predict depressive symptoms....

Existing empirical literature has typically treated meaning and purpose as identical....

A Book Review of Happiness: An ongoing and social process.

A Book Review of Wellbeing: The five essential elements.

A Book Review of The psychological wealth of nations: Do happy people make a happy society?

A Book Review of Understanding intuition and how the mind works.

A Book Review of Positive psychology as social change.

This study quantitatively assessed the size disciplinary reach impact and topic breadth of positive psychology (PP) in order to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the growth and significance of the field....

Recent research has suggested that constructs in the field of positive psychology may be important for understanding suicide risk. Specifically both hope theory and dispositional optimism have been linked to lower levels of suicidal ideation and interpersonal suicide risk....

This study examined the effects of processing ease on judgments of meaning in life (MIL) employing a common manipulation of fluency font styles. One hundred and three adults completed a questionnaire assessing MIL with items printed in one of four fonts that differed in readability....