Vol. 5 Issue 4
Year:2016
Issue:Nov-Jan
Title: Promoting Wellbeing Through Positive Psychology
Author Name:Mir Hassan and Muhammad Younas
Synopsis:
In our lives, in spite of happy moments, at certain moments, we feel somewhat depressed, sometimes we are in stress and also at times not being able to concentrate and above all, sometimes we feel that, we all are a bit mad. Positive psychology can be defined as the scientific study of what makes the life most valued. It is a psychological science that is concerned with the strengths and weaknesses of the individuals and groups; it is interested to build the worst of an individual’s life by repairing the abolished part and is also concerned with fulfilling and flourishing the lives of normal people (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000, p. 5). It works for individuals and groups at various levels; which include individual level, group level, and subjective level. At the individual level, it is concerned with positive individual attributes, such as love, courage, spirituality, personal skills, talent, wisdom, etc. Whereas, at group level, it talks about a group or institutional benefit, development, responsibility, living standard, ethics, law, and patience. Moreover, the subjective level is about experiences; satisfaction and good deeds of past, happiness and fulfillment of present and positive hopes for the future (Seligman, 2004). There is no mark division between mental health, and illness but rather placed somewhere on a continuum and it continues throughout an individual’s life. Health is a continuum, where absolute disease and absolute health is opposite of each other (Langius-Eklöf, 2004).
Year:2016
Issue:Nov-Jan
Title: Promoting Wellbeing Through Positive Psychology
Author Name:Mir Hassan and Muhammad Younas
Synopsis:
In our lives, in spite of happy moments, at certain moments, we feel somewhat depressed, sometimes we are in stress and also at times not being able to concentrate and above all, sometimes we feel that, we all are a bit mad. Positive psychology can be defined as the scientific study of what makes the life most valued. It is a psychological science that is concerned with the strengths and weaknesses of the individuals and groups; it is interested to build the worst of an individual’s life by repairing the abolished part and is also concerned with fulfilling and flourishing the lives of normal people (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000, p. 5). It works for individuals and groups at various levels; which include individual level, group level, and subjective level. At the individual level, it is concerned with positive individual attributes, such as love, courage, spirituality, personal skills, talent, wisdom, etc. Whereas, at group level, it talks about a group or institutional benefit, development, responsibility, living standard, ethics, law, and patience. Moreover, the subjective level is about experiences; satisfaction and good deeds of past, happiness and fulfillment of present and positive hopes for the future (Seligman, 2004). There is no mark division between mental health, and illness but rather placed somewhere on a continuum and it continues throughout an individual’s life. Health is a continuum, where absolute disease and absolute health is opposite of each other (Langius-Eklöf, 2004).
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