Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology filmed 2004...

This is a powerpoint slide presentation on the Science of Positive Psychology created by Dr. Ilona Boniwell

A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness. ...

Research investigating the relationship between self-construals and subjective well-being has traditionally focused on understanding how dimensions such as positivity-negativity and internality-externality relate to well-being....

According to self-determination theory well-being and healthy personality development depend on the fulfillment of three basic psychological needs: autonomy relatedness and competence. However various contextual features can interfere with need satisfaction and undermine well-being....

This research tested the existence of a moderation role of hope on the effects of optimism and pessimism over proactive coping in a sample survey of 343 subjects. The results showed that optimism explained proactive coping independent of hope....

What is courage? This question garners significant interest and attention but little empirical research. An operational definition of courage is essential to good research yet no consensus definition has fully emerged....

What is positive psychology? Where has it come from? Where is it going? These are the questions we address in this article....

This paper presents a new model outlining the subjective experience of courage....

How are character strengths related to recovery? A retrospective web-based study of 2087 adults found small but reliable associations between a history of physical illness and the character strengths of appreciation of beauty bravery curiosity fairness forgiveness gratitude humor kindness love of learning and spirituality....