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Positive Psychology, Existential Psychology, and the Presumption of Egoism

2014
Positive psychology and existential psychology are commonly thought to reflect radically different perspectives on the deep questions of human nature, what constitutes legitimate psychological inquiry, and the meaning of the good life. In this chapter, we identify and discuss three important ways in which positive psychology and existential psychology ...
Edwin E. Gantt, Jeffrey L. Thayne
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Positive leadership that inspires: Theoretical and empirical perspectives from positive psychology, existential theory, and hardiness research.

The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 2000
Paul Lloyd, Michael D. Atella
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Positive Existential Psychology: Addressing the Needs for Identity, Meaning, and Spirituality

A. Ruffion
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Existential Meaning in Life and Positive Psychological Functioning

2017
Psychological research on the experience of meaning in life has flourished in recent years. The growth of this research area can be seen as part of the broader positive psychology movement, which seeks to understand the psychology of positive experiences and optimal human functioning. This chapter discusses the various factors that are believed to lead
Andrew G. Christy, Grace Rivera, Kaiyuan Chen, Joshua A. Hicks   +3 more
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Unveiling multilingual English learners’ perceptions about language-specific adversities and sufferings and their associated regulatory strategies: an existential positive psychology (EPP) perspective

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Ali Derakhshan, Peter D Macintyre
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Positive and Existential Psychological Approaches to the Experience of Meaning in Life

2014
The positive psychology and experimental existential psychology movements have greatly advanced our understanding of the variables that augment and detract from the personal experience of meaning in life. In this chapter, we describe differences in these two perspectives.
Jinhyung Kim, Elizabeth Seto, William E. Davis, Joshua A. Hicks   +3 more
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Ultimate Concerns from Existential and Positive Psychological Perspectives

2014
Each individual is free, and inevitably responsible, to determine the parameters of his or her life, what is best to suffer for, connect with, choose, and believe. This chapter explores how two different traditions have examined such ultimate concerns of life. The existential perspective and the positive psychology perspective are evaluated with an eye
John Jurica, Jenni Barenz, Yerin Shim, Kirsten Graham, Michael F. Steger   +4 more
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Existential Positive Psychology to Better Prevent Extremism as a Cross-Cutting Approach in Education

A. Ruffion
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Existential Positive Psychology: A review

Theory and Practice of Psychological Counseling, 2021
Su Ruirui, Fan Fumin
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Existential positive psychology offers fresh perspective on free will

The Journal of Positive Psychology
The deterministic 'clockwork universe' ideas from bygone centuries have been rendered obsolete by advances in science, philosophy, and psychology. The ancient theoretical problem of free will should, therefore, be reframed for existential positive psychology by understanding the agentic powers of the human mind.
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