Positive debate Flashcards
(8 cards)
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INTRO
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- Psychology has mainly focused on treating disorders instead of celebrating happiness and strengths
- alternate view = focused on human well-being, strengths and virtues
2
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RELEVANT: WORK
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- csikzentmihalyi - work can be source of happiness with flow theory
- flow at work = 3x more than leisure
- work = opportunity for positive experiences as challenges and skills are set high = stretching capability raises self esteem
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UNRELEVANT: WORK
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- work may make us happy but money is not relevant
- deiner - modest correlation of .+12 between income and happiness
- Money important in poor socieities = work for money not happiness
- luxury of happiness at work is not everywhere
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RELEVANT: HEALTH
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- action for happiness - 10 keys to happier living e.g. exercising = improve well being, direcction = goals + sense of purpose = excitement
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kuzansky and thurston - researched 6,000+ men and women 25-74 for 20 years
high emotional vitality = reduced risk of coronary heart disease - treat patients with advice to increase happiness
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UNRELEVANT: HEALTH
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- hard to prove cause and effect relationship between happiness and health
- norem - defensive pessimists = deprived of usual thoughts as forced to look on the bright side of life = performance on tasks decreases
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RELEVANT: EDUCATION
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- seligman - positive psychology curriculum = promote skills + signature strengths = better well being + behaviour in students
- gillham - supports - 24 months after intervention = 22% showed symptoms of depression compared to 44% control
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UNRELEVANT: EDUCATION
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- adding positive to curriculum = other subjects must be dropped as schools lack finance
- seligman admitted that more research needs to be done to ensure its effective for students with various socio ecomonic + cultural backrounds
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CONC
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- help improve lives rather than focus on negatives
- mainly available to western world and based off of western ideas
