Positive Psychology - The Science of Well-Being

Positive Psychology uses a storytelling approach to provide a broad and objective understanding of the science of well-being, and to show how this knowledge can be applied to our own lives and to the well-being of entire societies.

List of contents

Part I Introduction
1 Describing the Science of Positive Psychology
Part II Happiness and Positive States
2 Positive Emotions
3 Happiness
Part III Personality Processes
4 Personality
5 The Self
6 Thinking
Part IV Social, Psychological, and PhysicalEnvironments
7 Social and Physical Environments
8 Close Relationships
Part V Towards Increasing Positivity
9 Stability and Change
10 Looking Forward

About the author

John M. Zelenski is a Professor of Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.  As a researcher and director of the Carleton University Happiness Laboratory, he studies individual differences in happiness, and how personality manifests itself ‘in the moment’ as emotional, behavioural, and cognitive processes. John’s recent work has focused on two areas: the causes and consequences of social behaviour (e.g., in relation to the personality trait of introversion-extraversion), and the links among nature, people’s sense of connection to nature (nature relatedness), happiness, and environmentally sustainable behaviour. John also teaches on a range of Personality, Social and Positive Psychology courses at Carleton.

Product details

• Authors: John M. Zelenski, John M. M. Zelenski
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2024
• EAN: 9781529620429
• ISBN: 978-1-5296-2042-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, positive psychology, Psychology: emotions, Health psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents