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    The document discusses positive psychology and its focus on healthy human functioning and optimal experiences like joy, optimism, and happiness, compared to traditional psychology's emphasis on mental illness. It also describes a study that found nuns who expressed more positive emotions in early life autobiographies at age 22 lived longer, up to 10 years, than those who expressed fewer positive emotions. Positive psychology aims to understand positive behaviors, strengths, and institutions that promote well-being.

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    Introductory and

    Historical Views
    Positive Psychology vs.
    Traditional Psychology
    Positive Psychology vs.
    Traditional Psychology
    The Nun Study/“Positive emotions in
    early
    life and longevity: Findings from the
    Nun Study.”
    Danner and her colleagues examined the relationship between
    positive emotions and longevity in a sample of 180 nuns.

    Why nuns?
    1. Nuns were an ideal group of people for such a study because
    many
    of the factors affecting physical health were controlled or minimized.
    Nuns don’t smoke or drink excessively
    2. They live in similar life circumstances.
    3. They are childless, so they have the same reproductive histories.
    4. They eat the same bland diet.

    **The “sameness” of their lives eliminated many of the variables that


    might confound an understanding of which specific factors were
    responsible for a
    long life.
    The Nun Study/“Positive emotions in
    early
    life and longevity: Findings from the
    The nuns inNun Study.”
    Danner and colleagues’ study had been asked to
    write a brief 2- to 3-page autobiographical sketch as part of their
    religious vows.

    These sketches were written in the 1930s and 1940s when the
    sisters were about 22 years old and just beginning their careers with
    the church.

    Researchers were able to retrieve the autobiographies from church


    archives. Then, they coded each autobiography by counting the
    number of positive-, negative-, and neutral-emotion words and
    sentences that it contained. Because few of the autobiographies
    contained negative emotions, the researchers concentrated on the
    number of positive-emotion words, positive-emotion sentences,
    and the number of different positive emotions expressed.

    **AFTER 60 years
    The Nun Study/“Positive emotions in
    early
    life and longevity: Findings from the
    Nun Study.”
    Positive Psychology:
    Assumptions, Goals, and
    Definitions
    Goal:
    Restore balance of the
    Positive
    discipline
    Reflected in two areas of
    Psychology:
    research and theory: Assumptions, Goals, and
    a. Need for improved Definitions
    understanding of positive
    human behaviors
    b. Empirically-based
    conceptual understanding Major Assumption:
    and language for
    Field of Psychology
    describing healthy human
    functioning that parallels has become
    our classification and unbalanced
    understanding of mental
    illness
    Positive
    Psychology:
    Assumptions, Goals, and
    Definitions: Definitions
     Gable and Haidt (2005, p. 104)
    suggest that positive psychology is
    “the study of the conditions
    and processes that contribute
    to the flourishing or optimal
    functioning of people, groups
    and institutions.”
    Definitions: Positive
     Seligman’s (2003) description of the
    three pillars of positive psychology. Psychology:
    Positive psychology is built on the study of
    Assumptions, Goals, and
    : Definitions
    (1)positive subjective
    experiences/sublevel (such as joy,
    happiness, contentment, optimism, and
    hope);

    (2) Positive individual


    characteristics/individual level (such as
    personal strengths and human virtues that
    promote mental health);

    (3) positive social institutions and


    communities/group level that contribute
    to individual health and happiness.
    Definitions:
     Seligman and his colleagues have
    proposed that happiness as a
    central focus of positive psychology

    Positive can be broken down into three


    components:

    Psychology: A. pleasant life (determinants of


    Assumptions, Goals, and happiness)
    Definitions B. engaged life (active involvement
    in activities)
    C. meaningful life (going beyond our
    own self-interests and
    preoccupations)

    (Seligman, 2003, Seligman, Rashid,


    & Parks, 2006).
    Positive Life above
    Psychology: ZERO

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