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The Hummingbird Project: A Positive Psychology Intervention for Secondary School Students [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Mental health in schools has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs) in secondary schools have been shown to improve mental health outcomes for students.
Ian Andrew Platt   +3 more
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Positive Psychology Intervention for Families of Hospitalized Children [PDF]

open access: yesPaidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2020
Positive Psychology interventions may benefit families with hospitalized children. This study aimed to evaluate a pilot intervention in positive psychology for parents with hospitalized children with acute health conditions.
Doralúcia Gil da Silva   +1 more
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A web-based approach to adolescent mental health: Randomized controlled trial of a brief Positive Psychology intervention [PDF]

open access: yesInternet Interventions
Theoretical background: The high prevalence of mental health problems as well as the substantial rise in the prevalence of major depression among young people is a major concern worldwide.
Sara Kaubisch   +8 more
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Building Positive Organizations: A Typology of Positive Psychology Interventions [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Research indicates that Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs) in the work context have a small positive impact on improving desirable work outcomes, and a small to moderate effect on reducing undesirable work outcomes, suggesting that the effects of ...
Marianne van Woerkom   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Experience with an online positive psychology intervention for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease: an interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
Purpose Considering the distress experienced by caregivers, numerous support systems have been devised. Recently, interventions focused on positive psychology have resulted in beneficial effects for caregivers.
Marie Dobignies   +8 more
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Modification of Affective Trajectory in a Positive Psychology Intervention

open access: yesApplied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2020
Enhancing positive affect (PA) and reducing negative affect (NA) are targets of positive psychology interventions, and well‐being and positive functioning are core elements of mental health. However, the underlying temporal dynamics of these elements are unknown.
Anne Congard   +2 more
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The Role of Gratitude in a Positive Psychology Group Intervention Program Implemented for Undergraduate Engineering Students

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Over the past decades, research on positive psychology for building strengths has proliferated. The present study aimed to explore the effect of gratitude in a 5-week positive psychology group program for undergraduate engineering students which included
Antonios Kalamatianos   +3 more
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Positive Education: Innovation in Educational Interventions Based on Positive Psychology [PDF]

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2020
School is configured as a social space that can essentially contribute to cognitive and emotional evolvement. Furthermore, it emerges as an important resource for Positive Psychology. This review aimed to evaluate studies that present interventions based
Cecilia Cesa Schiavon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Factor “Otherism” Added to the Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities Scale (HEMA) in Chinese Culture

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Due to different understandings of happiness, people adopt different tendencies to act, which is called orientation to happiness (OTH). Our previous study found that OTH had two core themes, Self-focused and Other-focused in Chinese culture, which was ...
Rong Dong   +6 more
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Pursuing Harmony and Fulfilling Responsibility: A Qualitative Study of the Orientation to Happiness (OTH) in Chinese Culture

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Happiness is the ultimate life goal for most people, and the pursuit of happiness serves as the fundamental motivation driving human behavior. Orientation to Happiness (OTH) represents the aspect that individuals seek when making decisions or engaging in
Rong Dong   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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