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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xxi
Chapter
1
What Is Positive Psychology?
1
Traditional Psychology
1
Why the Negative Focus?
2
Positive Psychology
3
Health Psychology
4
Focus on Research: Living Longer Through Positive Emotions
—
The Nun Study
5
Clinical Psychology
7
Developmental Psychology
7
Survey Research and Subjective Well-Being
7
Social/Personality Psychology and the Psychology of Religion
8
Positive Psychology: Assumptions, Goals, and Definitions
8
Life Above Zero
9
Culture and the Meaning of a Good Life
9
Why Now?
10
Two Final Notes
10
Positive Psychology Is Not Opposed to Psychology
10
Positive Psychology and the Status Quo
11
Chapter Summary Questions
11 ·
Key Terms
12
Web Resources
12 ·
Suggested Readings
12
Chapter
2
The Meaning and Measure of Happiness
14
Why a Psychology of Weil-Being?
15
Objective versus Subjective Measures
15
Negative versus Positive Functioning
16
What is Happiness? Two Traditions
17
Hedonic Happiness
17
Eudaimonic Happiness
18
Focus on Research: Positive Affect and a Meaningful Life
19
Subjective Well-Being: The Hedonic Basis of Happiness
20
Measuring Subjective Weil-Being
20
Life Satisfaction
21
Positive Affect, Negative Affect, and Happiness
22
Focus on Research: Is Your Future Revealed in Your Smile?
23
Issues in the Study of Affect
23
Global Measures of Happiness
24
vi
Contents
Reliability and Validity of SWB Measures
25
Experience Sampling Method
26
Focus on Method: How Do We Spend Our Time?
27
Experience Sampling versus Global Measures of Subjective
Well-Being
28
Self-Realization: The Eudaimonic Basis of Happiness
29
Psychological Weil-Being and Positive Functioning
29
Need Fulfillment and
Self-Détermination
Theory
31
Focus on Research: What Makes a Good Day?
31
Comparing Hedonic and Eudaimonic Views of Happiness
34
Definition and Causes of Happiness and Well-Being
34
Complementarity and Interrelationship
35
Chapter Summary Questions
36 ·
Key Terms
36
Web Resources
36 ·
Suggested Readings
37
Chapter
3
Positive Emotions and Well-Being
38
What are Positive Emotions?
39
Focus on Theory: The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive
Emotions
39
Positive Emotions and Health Resources
42
Physical Resources
43
Psychological Resources
45
Focus on Application: Finding the Positive in the Negative
46
Social Resources
48
The Limits of Positive Emotions
49
Positive Emotions and Weil-Being
50
Happiness and Positive Behavior
50
Positive Emotions and Success
50
Positive Emotions and Flourishing
51
Cultivating Positive Emotions
52
Flow Experiences
52
Savoring
54
Chapter Summary Questions
55 ·
Key Terms
55
Web Resources
55 ·
Suggested Readings
56
Chapter
4
Resilience
57
What is Resilience?
58
Developmental Perspectives
58
Clinical Perspectives
59
Resilience Research
60
Sources of Resilience
61
The Dangers of Blaming the Victim
61
Sources of Resilience in Children
62
Contents
vii
Focus on
Research:
Resilience Among Disadvantaged
Youth
63
Sources of Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life
64
Successful Aging
65
Growth Through Trauma
66
Negative Effects of Trauma
67
Positive Effects of Trauma
68
Explanations for Growth Through Trauma
68
Focus on Research: In Their Own Words
—
Making Sense
of Loss
70
Chapter Summary Questions
72 ·
Key Terms
72
Web Resources
72 ·
Suggested Readings
73
Chapter
5
Happiness and the Facts of Life
74
Happiness Across the Life Span
76
Focus on Research: Happiness and Where We Live
77
Stability in Well-Being Despite Life Changes
81
Gender and Happiness
86
Gender Differences in Emotional Experience
86
Explaining the Paradox of Gender
87
Marriage and Happiness
89
Benefits of Marriage
89
Selection Effects
90
Focus on Research: Are We Still Happy After the
Honeymoon?
91
Gender Differences in the Benefits of Marriage
92
Other Facts of Life
93
Physical and Mental Health
93
Work and Unemployment
94
Intelligence and Education
95
Religion
95
Race, Ethnicity, and Stigma
95
Chapter Summary Questions
96 ·
Key Terms
97
Web Resources
97 ·
Suggested Readings
97
Chapter
6
Money, Happiness, and Culture
98
The Paradox of Affluence
99
Weil-Being Across Nations
102
Between-Nations Comparisons
103
Within-Nation Comparisons
103
Interpreting National Comparisons
105
Understanding Money and Happiness
105
Focus on Research: Do Happy People Make More Money?
106
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Why Doesn t Money Matter More?
108
Focus on Research: Adaptation to Extreme Events—Lottery Winners
and Accident Victims
109
The Meaning of Happiness: Relative or Universal?
114
Culture and Well-Being
116
The Self in Individualistic and Collectivist Cultures
117
Culture and the Meaning of Happiness
118
The American-Individualistic Style of Happiness
118
The Asian-Collectivist Style of Happiness
119
Chapter Summary Questions
122 ·
Key Terms
123
Web Resources
123 ·
Suggested Readings
123
Chapter
7
Personal Goals as Windows to Well-Being
125
Goals Connect Having and Doing
126
What are Personal Goals?
127
Defining Personal Goals
127
Goals and Related Motivational Concepts
128
Measuring Personal Goals
129
Goal Organization
130
The Search for Universal Human Motives
130
Goals and the Fulfillment of Basic Human Needs
130
Focus on Research: An Empirical Method for Assessing
Universal Needs
131
Goals Expressing Fundamental Values
132
Personal Goals Across Cultures
134
The Personalization of Goals in Self-Concept
136
What Goals Contribute Most to Well-Being?
137
Goal Progress, Achievement, and Importance
137
The Matching Hypothesis
137
What Explains the Matching Hypothesis?
139
Focus on Research: Happiness and Success in College
141
Materialism and Its Discontents
143
Why Are Materialists Unhappy?
144
Why Do People Adopt Materialistic Values?
146
Affluence and Materialism
149
Are We All Materialists?
150
Chapter Summary Questions
151 ·
Key Terms
152
Web Resources
152 ·
Suggested Readings
152
Chapter
8
Self-Regulation and Self-Control
153
The Value of Self-Control
155
Personal Goals and Self-Regulation
155
Control Theory
156
Seff-Discrepancy Theory
156
Contents ix
Planning
for Self-Regulation Success
157
Focus on Research: Planning Makes
a Difference
158
Why Planning Helps
158
Commitment and Confidence
159
Goals That Create Self-Regulation Problems
160
Approach versus Avoidance Goals
160
Goal Conflict
162
Trivial Pursuits and Magnificent Obsessions
164
Focus on Theory: Thinking About the Meaning
of Our Actions
164
Goal Difficulty
165
The Ironic Effects of Mental Control
166
Everyday Explanations for Self-Control Failure
168
Excuses
168
Irresistible Impulses
170
Focus on Research: The Costs and Benefits
of Procrastination
172
Goal Disengagement
173
Chapter Summary Questions
174 ·
Key Terms
175
Web Resources
175 ·
Suggested Readings
175
Chapter
9
Positive Traits
176
What Makes a Trait Positive?
177
Personality, Emotions, and Biology
178
Positive and Negative Affectivity
178
Genetics and Happiness
179
Personality and Happiness: The Big Five
180
Neurobiology and Approach/Avoidance Motives
183
Genetics and Change
184
Positive Beliefs
185
The World Through Happy and Unhappy Eyes
185
Self-Esteem
186
Personal Control
193
Optimism
193
Focus on Research and Theory: Unresolved Issues in the Study
of Optimism
200
Positive Illusions
202
Chapter Summary Questions
204 ·
Key Terms
205
Web Resources
205 ·
Suggested Readings
206
Chapter
10
Virtue and Strengths of Character
207
Developing a Classification of Human Virtues
208
Measuring Strengths of Character
211
Contents
Wisdom as a Foundational Strength and Virtue
213
What Is Wisdom?
213
Theories of Wisdom
215
Wisdom in Action: The
(SOC) Modei
of Effective Life
Management
218
Focus on Theory: Wisdom or Self-Control as Master
Virtues?
220
Transcendence: Religion and Spirituality
221
The Search for Meaning
221
Religion and Spirituality: The Diversity of Views
223
Defining Religion and Spirituality
225
Religion/Spirituality and Well-Being
226
Religious Orientation
228
Attachment Theory and Relationship to God
230
Styles of Religious Coping
231
Explaining Religion versus Explaining Religion Away
232
Religion and Virtue
233
Forgiveness
233
Gratitude
235
Focus on Research: Increasing Well-Being by Counting Your
Blessings
235
Chapter Summary Questions
237 ·
Key Terms
237
Web Resources
238 ·
Suggested Readings
238
Chapter
11
Close Relationships and Weil-Being
239
Defining Close Relationships
241
Characteristics
241
Exchange and Communal Relationships
245
On the Lighter Side
245
Teasing and Humor
246
Focus on Research: Sharing What Goes Right in Life
246
Friendship and Romantic Love
247
Clarity of Rules
248
Complexity of Feelings
249
Expectations
249
Varieties of Love
249
Passionate and Companionate Love
249
Triangular Theory of Love
250
Cultural Context of Love, Marriage, and Divorce
251
Why Don t Marriages Last?
252
What People Bring to Romantic Relationships
257
Attachment Style
257
Conflict and Communication Skills
261
Contents xi
Focus on Research: The Power of the Bad
261
Attributions
262
Implicit Theories and Expectations
263
Food for Thought: The Contours of a Happy Marriage
264
What Can Happy Couples Tell Us?
264
Humor and Compatibility
265
Chapter Summary Questions
267 ·
Key Terms
267
Web Resources
268 ·
Suggested Readings
268
Chapter
12
Life Above Zero
269
Positive Psychology Revisited
269
Interconnection of the Good and the Bad
270
Contours of a Positive Life: Meaning and Means
271
Meaning
271
Means
273
Mindfulness and Weil-Being
279
What is Mindfulness?
280
Focus on Research: Getting to Life s Bottom Line
281
Mindfulness Meditation
285
Mindfulness and Positive Psychology Research
288
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
290
East-West and Positive Psychology
292
Chapter Summary Questions
293 ·
Key Terms
293
Web Resources
293 ·
Suggested Readings
294
References
295
Author Index
326
Subject Index
332
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