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Unit 5 focuses on positive psychology, emphasizing well-being, resilience, and positive emotions as key components of a fulfilling life. It explores concepts such as gratitude, signature strengths, virtues, and posttraumatic growth, which contribute to individual excellence and happiness. The field aims to study and promote optimal human functioning and subjective well-being alongside objective measures of quality of life.

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Unit 5 focuses on positive psychology, emphasizing well-being, resilience, and positive emotions as key components of a fulfilling life. It explores concepts such as gratitude, signature strengths, virtues, and posttraumatic growth, which contribute to individual excellence and happiness. The field aims to study and promote optimal human functioning and subjective well-being alongside objective measures of quality of life.

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Unit 5: Positive Psychology

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Well-being A state of health and happiness overall.


Resilience Ability to recover from adversity or stress.
Feelings that enhance well-being and life
Positive emotions
satisfaction.
Gratitude Appreciation for what one has received.
the positive but private feelings and
Positive subjective experiences thoughts people have about themselves
and the events in their lives
Unique traits that contribute to individual
Signature strengths
excellence.
Moral qualities deemed to be good or
Virtues
desirable.
A state of well-being characterized by
Happiness
positive emotions.
Six types: wisdom, courage, humanity,
Categories of virtues
justice, temperance, transcendence.
Positive change experienced after trau-
Posttraumatic growth
matic events.
the scientific study of optimal human
functioning; aims to discover and pro-
positive psychology
mote strengths and virtues that enable
individuals and communities to thrive
self-perceived happiness or satisfaction
with life. Used along with measures of
subjective well-being objective well-being (for example, physi-
cal and economic indicators) to evaluate
people's quality of life.

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