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However, later research found that positive illusions and related attitudes lead to psychological maladaptive conditions such as poorer social relationships, expressions of narcissism, and negative workplace outcomes, [138] thus reducing the positive effects that positive illusions have on subjective well-being, overall happiness, and life ...
Positive health of a person is defined as the ability to live long in good health without activity limitation. [1] This implies the availability of mechanism in the body to thwart the ailments and to minimize their adverse effect if they strike. The concept has evolved over time and has seen significant changes.
Positive mental attitude (PMA) is a concept first introduced in 1937 by Napoleon Hill in the book Think and Grow Rich. The book never actually uses the term, but discusses the importance of positive thinking as a contributing factor of success. [ 1 ]
A 2004 study found that writing about intensely positive experiences improved subjects' happiness and health. [8] For twenty minutes per day over three days, subjects wrote about an intensely positive experience while a control group wrote about a neutral topic. The experimental group demonstrated increased happiness compared to the control.
This effect has been widely recognized across traits [7] and abilities [8] including the different abilities of driving, [9] parenting, [10] leadership, teaching, ethics, and general health. This effect is also evident in memory; most people also tend to perceive their ability to remember as better than it actually is. [11]
Seligman invites pessimists to learn to be optimists by thinking about their reactions to adversity in a new way. The resulting optimism—one that grew from pessimism—is a learned optimism. The optimist's outlook on failure can thus be summarized as "What happened was an unlucky situation (not personal), and really just a setback (not ...
The Life Orientation Test (LOT) was designed by Scheier and Carver (1985) [full citation needed] to assess dispositional optimism – expecting positive or negative outcomes. [21] It is one of the more popular tests of optimism and pessimism. It was often used in early studies examining these dispositions' effects in health-related domains. [29]
Social interaction has a strong effect on well-being as negative social outcomes are more strongly related to well-being than are positive social outcomes. [9] Childhood traumatic experiences diminish psychological well-being throughout adult life, and can damage psychological resilience in children, adolescents, and adults. [10]