Positive Psychology Seligman

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Positive Psychology(Seligman Csikszentmihalyi)

• Traditional focus in psychology has been on
  pathology
• Effort underway to shift focus from preoccupation
  only with repairing the worst things in life to
  also building positive qualities
• Asks fundamental questions
• What kinds of families result in children who
  flourish?
• What work settings support the greatest
  satisfaction among workers?
• What policies result in the strongest civic
  engagement?
• How can peoples lives be most worth living?

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Positive Psychology

• Involves valued subjective experiences
• Well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the
  past)
• Hope and optimism (for the future)
• Flow and happiness (in the present)

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Positive Psychology

• Focuses on the following positive
  individual-level traits
• Capacity for love
• Courage
• Interpersonal skill
• Aesthetic sensibility
• Perseverance
• Forgiveness
• Originality
• Future-mindedness
• Spirituality
• High talent
• Wisdom

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Positive Psychology

• At the group level, it involves the civic virtues
  and the institutions that move individuals toward
  better citizenship
• Responsibility
• Nurturance
• Altruism
• Civility
• Moderation
• Tolerance
• Work ethic