Positive Psychology

VOLUME ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES Shared Virtue: The Convergence of Valued Human Strengths across Culture and History - Katherine Dahlsgaard, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman The Humanistic Psychology-Positive Psychology Divide: Contrasts in Philosophical Foundations - Alan Waterman The Humanistic Psychology and Positive Psychology Connection: Implications for Psychotherapy - Stella Resnick, Arthur Warmoth and Ilene Serlin Subjective Well-Being: Three Decades of Progress - Ed Diener, Eunkook Suh, Richard Lucas and Heidi Smith Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation - Lyn Abramson, Martin Seligman and John Teasdale Influence of Extraversion and Neuroticism on Subjective Well-Being: Happy and Unhappy People - Paul Costa and Robert McCrae Positive Psychology: Past, Present, and (Possible) Future - P. Alex Linley, Stephen Joseph, Susan Harrington and Alex Wood Tracing the Size, Reach, Impact, and Breadth of Positive Psychology - Reuben Rusk and Lea Waters Orientations to Happiness and Life Satisfaction: The Full Life versus the Empty Life - Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park and Martin Seligman The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success? - Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King and Ed Diener VOLUME TWO: CONSTRUCTS AND THEORIES The Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life - Corey Keyes Origins and Functions of Positive and Negative Affect: A Control-Process View - Charles Carver and Michael Scheier The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology: The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions - Barbara Fredrickson Emotional Intelligence - Peter Salovey and John Mayer Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being - Richard Ryan and Edward Deci Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-Being: The Self-Concordance Model - Kennon Sheldon and Andrew Elliot Are There Universal Aspects in the Structure and Content of Human Values? - Shalom Schwartz Possible Selves - Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence - Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun Optimal Experience in Work and Leisure - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Judith LeFevre Strengths of Character and Well-Being - Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman When Choice Is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing? - Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory - Richard Easterlin Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change - Sonja Lyubomirsky, Kennon Sheldon and David Schkade VOLUME THREE: MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT Happiness Is Everything, or Is It? Explorations on the Meaning of Psychological Well-Being - Carol Ryff Development and Validation of Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect: The PANAS Scales - David Watson, Lee Anna Clark and Auke Tellegen The Satisfaction with Life Scale - Ed Diener et al. The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life - Michael Steger, Patricia Frazier, Shigehiro Oishi and Matthew Kaler Distinguishing Optimism from Neuroticism (and Trait Anxiety, Self-Mastery, and Self-Esteem): A Reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test - Michael Scheier, Charles Carver and Michael Bridges Assessing Coping Strategies: A Theoretically Based Approach - Charles Carver, Michael Scheier and Jagdish Kumari Weintraub Emotional Style and Susceptibility to the Common Cold - Sheldon Cohen, William Doyle, Ronald Turner, Cuneyt Alper and David Skoner Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation - Richard Davidson et al. Positive Emotions in Early Life and Longevity: Findings from the Nun Study - Deborah Danner, David Snowdon and Wallace Friesen Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon - David Lykken and Auke Tellegen The Social Context of Well-Being - John Helliwell and Robert Putnam Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis of the Framingham Heart Study Social Network - James Fowler et al. Risk, Resilience, and Recovery: Perspectives from the Kauai Longitudinal Study - Emmy Werner Successful Aging - George Vaillant and Kenneth Mukamal A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method - Daniel Kahneman et al. Post-Traumatic Growth and Life Threatening Physical Illness: A Systematic Review of the Qualitative Literature - Kate Hefferon, Madeleine Grealy and Nanette Mutrie VOLUME FOUR: INTERVENTIONS AND ACTIVITIES Development of a Program to Increase Personal Happiness - Michael Fordyce Long-Term Effects of a Control-Relevant Intervention with the Institutionalized Aged - Judith Rodin and Ellen Langer An Outpatient Program in Behavioral Medicine for Chronic Pain Patients Based on the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation: Theoretical Considerations and Preliminary Results - Jon Kabat-Zinn Counting Blessings versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life - Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough How to Increase and Sustain Positive Emotion: The Effects of Expressing Gratitude and Visualizing Best Possible Selves - Kennon Sheldon and Sonja Lyubomirsky The Health Benefits of Writing about Intensely Positive Experiences - Chad Burton and Laura King Effects of Exercise Training on Older Patients with Major Depression - James Blumenthal et al. Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life - David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva What Do You Do When Things Go Right? The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events - Shelly Gable et al. Enhancing Well-Being and Alleviating Depressive Symptoms with Positive Psychology Interventions: A Practice-Friendly Meta-Analysis - Nancy SinandSonja Lyubomirsky Becoming Happier Takes Both a Will and a Proper Way: An Experimental Longitudinal Intervention to Boost Well-Being - Sonja Lyubomirsky et al. VOLUME FIVE: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN APPLIED SETTINGS A Meta-Analytic Review of the Penn Resiliency Program's Effect on Depressive Symptoms - Steven Brunwasser, Jane Gillham and Eric Kim Intelligence Praise Can Undermine Motivation and Performance - Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck Toward a Psychology of Positive Youth Development - Reed Larson Of Memes and Marriage: Toward a Positive Relationship Science - Frank Fincham and Steven Beach Integrating Positive Psychology into Counseling: Why and (When Appropriate) How - Alex Harris, Carl Thoresen and Shane Lopez Development and Characteristics of a Well-Being Enhancing Psychotherapeutic Strategy: Well-Being Therapy - Giovanni Fava and Chiara Ruini Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice - Angela Lee Duckworth, Tracy Steen and Martin Seligman The Impact of Life Coaching on Goal Attainment, Metacognition and Mental Health - Anthony Grant Foundations of Positive Organizational Scholarship - Kim Cameron, Jane Dutton and Robert Quinn The Need for and Meaning of Positive Organizational Behavior - Fred Luthans Comprehensive Soldier Fitness: Building Resilience in a Challenging Institutional Context - Rhonda Cornum, Michael Matthews and Martin Seligman Positive Health - Martin Seligman VOLUME SIX: CRITIQUES, CONTROVERSIES, AND CURRENT ISSUES Positive Psychology: History in the Remaking? - Dana Becker and Jeanne Marecek The Negative Side of Positive Psychology - Barbara Held Does the Positive Psychology Movement Have Legs? - Richard Lazarus Positive Psychology in Cancer Care: Bad Science, Exaggerated Claims, and Unproven Medicine - James Coyne and Howard Tennen The Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking: The Critical Positivity Ratio - Nicholas Brown, Alan Sokal and Harris Friedman "Positive Psychology": Some Plusses and Some Open Issues - Emory Cowen and Ryan Kilmer Defensive Pessimism: Harnessing Anxiety as Motivation - Julie Norem and Nancy Cantor Positive Psychology 2.0: Towards a Balanced Interactive Model of the Good Life - Paul Wong On Being Positive: Concerns and Counterpoints - Stephen Fineman Reconsidering Happiness: The Cost of Distinguishing between Hedonics and Eudaimonia - Todd Kashdan, Robert Biswar-Diener and Laura King Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill: Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-Being - Ed Diener, Richard Lucas and Christie Napa Scollon Critical Positive Masculinity - Tim Lomas Toward a Multicultural Positive Psychology: Indigenous Forgiveness and Hmong Culture - Steven Sandage, Peter Hill and Henry Vang Beyond Positive Psychology? Toward a Contextual View of Psychological Processes and Well-Being - James McNulty and Frank Fincham The Role of Power in Wellness, Oppression, and Liberation: The Promise of Psychopolitical Validity - Isaac Prilleltensky The LIFE Model: A Conceptual Map for Applied Positive Psychology - Tim Lomas, Kate Hefferon and Itai Ivtzan