Positive Psychology: an emerging approach
A panoramic view of Positive Psychology is presented. This branch came out formally in the psychologicalscene at the early New Millennium. It emerged as a response to the predominance of the psychology focused onnegative behaviors. Positive psychology focuses its interest on positive inner experienc...
| Autor Principal: | Alarcón Napurí, Reynaldo |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
2018
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http://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/tematicapsicologica/article/view/881 |
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A panoramic view of Positive Psychology is presented. This branch came out formally in the psychologicalscene at the early New Millennium. It emerged as a response to the predominance of the psychology focused onnegative behaviors. Positive psychology focuses its interest on positive inner experiencies, which contribute tothe flourishing and optimum psychological development of the human being. The originality of this branch ofpsychology lies in the fact that unexplored areas of psychism connected with human wellbeing are the focus ofattention. In addition to this motivation, there are others of theoretical nature that are noticed in the inadequacyof theoretical support from dominant psychological schools like behaviorism, orthodox psychoanalysis andhumanistic psychology, whose foundations are analyzed. The author checks the elements of the “positive personality”according to M.E.P. Seligman and associates, in terms of six virtues and 24 strengths, terms of religiousand philosophical roots, which could be replaced by the scientific concept of “human strength” accordingto L. S. Aspinwall & U.M. Staundinger. Some basic suppositions of Positive Psychology are shown and twomain topics of Positive Psychology are introduced: happiness and the theory of flow and optimal experience. |
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