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Contemporary and popular films that promote or represent character strengths are the basis for various academic articles. [129] In Positive Psychology at the Movies, Ryan Niemiec and Danny Wedding explore how mainstream films—ranging from Groundhog Day to The Pursuit of Happyness—illustrate character strengths, hope, and personal growth. [130]
The Journal of Positive Psychology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering positive psychology, including measures of well-being such as life satisfaction, traits such as optimism, work life consequences of resilience, and methods to enhance positive psychological traits.
The strength of an individual's intrinsic (relative to extrinsic) aspirations as indicated by rankings of importance correlates with an array of psychological outcomes. Positive correlations have been found with indications of psychological well-being: positive affect, vitality, and self-actualization.
Journal of Positive Behavioral Interventions is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, PsycINFO, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017impact factor is 2.41, ranking it 2 out of 40 journals in the category ‘Education, Special’ [1] and 45 out of 127 journals in the category ‘Psychology, Clinical’.
In positive psychology, high self-efficacy can help in gaining learned optimism which ultimately leads to PMA. PMA is considered an internal focus of control that influences external factors. Research has shown that through emotional intelligence training and positive psychology therapy, a person's attitudes and perceptions can be modified to ...
Learned optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. In contrast with learned helplessness , optimism is learned by consciously challenging any negative self talk .
Keeping a gratitude journal is a popular practice in the field of positive psychology. It is also referred to as “counting one's blessings” [1] or “three good things”. [2] Empirical findings on the benefits of gratitude journals have shown significant impact on psychological and physical well-being.
Almost all of these following scientists have published influential and well-cited articles. Furthermore, these scientists are considered producers of high-quality work outside of the positive psychology guild and publish in mainstream, top-tier psychology journals. Albert Bandura; Robert Biswas-Diener; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [1] Richard Davidson