Positive Psychology: Positive Emotion in the Midst of Stress: Its Adaptive

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Positive Emotion in the Midst of Stress: Its Adaptive

Uploaded on Nov 5, 2009

UCSF social psychologist Judith Moskowitz examines how positive emotions can be marshaled as adaptive coping tools during stressful times.

Moskowitz's research focuses on coping and emotion in the context of health related chronic stress.

Series: Womens Health Today [11/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 17226]

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Link: http://youtu .be/isseiH9Q9Bg

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."

Monday, September 29, 2014

Positive Emotion in the Midst of Stress: Its Adaptive

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