Positive Psychology Center

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What does it mean to be a “healthy adult”? Research suggests it’s not a single trait, but a balance of self-reflection, connection, and resilience. Read this article to learn how a new scale breaks down the components of well-being.

Multidimensional Healthy Adult Scale: Development and validation of a measurement tool to understand how the Healthy Adult works in a Turkish population Healthy Adult (HA), a key schema therapy construct, represents the individual’s ‘healthy’ state, characterized by balancing personal and others’ needs within a realistic perspective. We developed the Multidimensional Healthy Adult Scale to explore how various dimensions of the HA contribute ...

When kids get angry, the goal isn’t to shut it down but to understand what there trying to say. Read this article to see how guiding children through awareness, regulation, and repair can turn anger into a force for good.

Five Steps to Help Kids Transform Anger Into a Force for Good With some help and awareness, children can channel anger into clarity, caring, and action.

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Happiness is often shaped by culture, yet its impact on how long we live may be more consistent than we assume. Read this article to learn how research reveals a link between emotional well-being and longevity, even in societies that value restraint.

Happier people live longer, even in cultures that value emotional restraint Research often links positive emotions to longevity in Western countries. A new study confirms this association exists in Japan, finding that unhappy adults were significantly more likely to die over a seven-year period than happy ones.

Grit matters, but belief in your own ability may be the key link. Read this study to learn about how self-efficacy helps translate persistence into greater life satisfaction. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0343844

Frontiers | The role of positive affect in the relationship between neuroticism, self-esteem, and emotional clarity in adolescents IntroductionThe relationship between neuroticism and emotional clarity has been a prominent topic of research in the context of adult development and well-be...

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Resilience doesn’t operate in a vacuum. This study shows it shapes well-being and employability during the transition to work, but its impact depends on how uncertain the environment feels.

Frontiers | Emotional resilience and its role in promoting well-being and employability during the school-to-work transition under labor market uncertainty The transition from higher education into employment has become more demanding for graduates as economic conditions increase uncertainty surrounding early ca...

From strengths to well-being, growing evidence shows that positive psychological processes play a meaningful role in health and human functioning. This study pushes that conversation forward.

Determinants of Well-Being: A Causal Framework - PubMed Different philosophical strands have developed distinct well-being conceptions, which are nevertheless strongly linked. For instance, many typical well-being components in eudaimonic philosophies correlate with subjective life assessment measures. Existing empirical research also provides many insig...

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