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Positive Psychology | Role and Impact on an Individual

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Positive Psychology | Role and Impact on an Individual

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Running head: PSYCHOLOGYPsychologyName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
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1PSYCHOLOGYTable of ContentsIntroduction:....................................................................................................................................2Part 1: Explanation:.........................................................................................................................3Positive psychology and its prominence:....................................................................................3Difference between positive and traditional psychology:...........................................................4Part 2: Character strength:...............................................................................................................5Describing the research area:.......................................................................................................5Impact of character strength in wellbeing:..................................................................................6Analysis of the research methods:...............................................................................................7Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................8References:....................................................................................................................................10
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2PSYCHOLOGYIntroduction:Positive psychology is a part of science that deals with the functioning of human and thisscience understands human better. Positive psychology takes into consideration the conceptsrelated to human performance by using interventions, which helps in building sustainability inwell being of the individual (Gable &Haidt, 2005). The elements that the positive psychologydeals with are:1.Positive emotions2.Engagement or involvement3.Relationships4.Meaning 5.AccomplishmentsPositive psychology is different from traditional psychology because traditional psychologyfocuses on the illness like depression or relative things and positive psychology deals with theways that are essential for healthy relationships and flourished growth (Gable &Haidt, 2005).Positive psychology answers questions like what an individual do properly, what keeps themengaged, what gives individual more satisfaction and long lasting performance? Positivepsychology also makes an individual learn the value of relationships in their life. It offers themthe ability to experience job satisfaction and determine career objectives. It motivates intrinsicperformance and gives an individual the idea regarding how to stifle organizations achievement.Positive psychology is the head of all these theories that determines the meaning of life (Gable&Haidt, 2005).
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3PSYCHOLOGYThis paper will discuss about positive psychology and its prominence, it will also describedifference of positive and traditional psychology. This paper also describes the research area of‘character strengths’ and used the research findings to identify the research area’s impact on wellbeing along with the analysis of the research methods used in the given articles. This paper is todetermine the role and impact of positive psychology for the well-being of an individual.Part 1: Explanation:Positive psychology and its prominence: Before World War II, there was existence of three types of psychology. They weremental illness cure, productivity and fulfillment in the lives of human and identifying talent.However, with the ending of the war, productivity and fulfillment in the lives of human andidentifying talent psychology also ended and the mental health psychology became the primaryconcern of the psychologist. However, positive in positive psychology means the strength thatpeople have the functioning of the people but it never describes the other psychology as negative.Positive psychology came into prominence in the year of 1998 when Martin Seligman turned tobe the president of American Psychological Association and invented the idea of learningsomething positive in men (Gable & Haidt, 2005). In the early 2006, positive psychologyconsists of a long past but smaller history. Positive psychology consists of studying the positivethings in life from the day life starts until it ends. Positive psychology involves the study of thepurposes that leads to human emotion like joy, happiness, sadness and others. Positivepsychology also involves studying about the determinants of positive strength in the life ofpeople. Positive psychology provides a clear view about the relation between happiness andsuccess along with pointing the reason that will make people live a healthy life (Niemiec &
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