Positive Psychology: Happiness Across the Lifespan

Monday, September 28, 2015

Happiness Across the Lifespan

Published on Apr 4, 2014

The Science and Practice of Happiness Across the Lifespan

What makes people happy?

Is happiness a good thing?

How can we make people happier still?

Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, examines happiness and how we can use our minds as well as coping tools to better handle life's challenges.

Series: "Stein Institute for Research on Aging" [4/2014] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25618]

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Link: https://youtu.be/MDTi2_PHiiM

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 28, 2015

Happiness Across the Lifespan

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