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Happiness and Social Connectivity
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
While much of the attention surrounding mental health, quality of life, and job satisfaction emphasizes factors, such as stress, that detract from happiness, there is also a rich body of science that focuses on the positive. While work as a nurse can be stressful, and challenges are inevitable, creating and maintaining a positive mood can increase motivation, enjoyment, and productivity in the workplace (Martin, 2005). Further, research suggests that one does not need to naturally gravitate towards or constantly feel happiness or positive emotions. Instead, positive psychology interventions can be utilized to foster positive affect, resilience, and more optimal functioning within and outside of work (Froman, 2010; Martin, 2005). Positive psychology and interventions that promote positive affect align with the premise of lifestyle medicine. For example, coupling lifestyle medicine and positive psychology, which emphasizes individual strengths, may effectively foster good mental health and well-being (Morton, 2018). Additionally, social connectivity and healthy interpersonal relationships, two topics positive psychologists study, are critical for boosting positive affect and overall quality of life.
Positive Psychology and Relational Connectedness
Published in Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak, Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
A simple way to begin incorporating positive psychology into clinical practice is to prescribe regular positive activities, such as gratitude journaling. Credible websites and digital programs offer a variety of research summaries, assessments, techniques, tools, and online communities to support your positive psychology “prescriptions.” Patients can be encouraged to explore them. Examples include the Greater Good Science Center, which provides science summaries and articles on evidence-based practices, and the Live Happy Magazine, which offers a publication, podcasts, tips on positive living, and an online community.
Behavioral Change
Published in James M. Rippe, Manual of Lifestyle Medicine, 2021
A recent interest has emerged in the science of positive psychology and its impact on behavioral change. Positive psychology is defined as the scientific study of “conditions and processes that contribute to the flourishing or optimal functioning of people, groups and institutions.” Since this is an emerging and central component of lifestyle medicine, a separate section of this chapter will be devoted to positive psychology.
Pilot Study of Hypnotic Relaxation Therapy for Well-Being (HRT-WB): A New Intervention to Enhance Well-Being and Positive Affect
Published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2022
Hyeji Na, Vindhya Ekanayake, Victor Padilla, Gary R. Elkins
However, since the formalization of positive psychology in 1998 during Seligman’s presidential address to the American Psychological Association (Fowler et al., 1999), there has been an increased call for interventions to not only attend to clinical symptoms but to also nurture people’s strengths and positive functioning. Positive psychology is the scientific study of the positive aspects of psychological functioning, and the goal of positive psychology is to enhance well-being (Gable & Haidt, 2005; Seligman, 2012; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). A positive psychological approach to therapy is therefore based on identifying and reinforcing strengths and positive traits and experiences. Furthermore, enhancing well-being does not need to come at the expense of failing to address pathological symptoms; rather, positive psychology encourages a balanced approach, attending to symptoms as well as enhancing well-being (Rashid, 2009).
Effect of Occupational Therapy Program to Promote Well-Being in People with Experiences of Mental Illness – Quasi-Experimental Study
Published in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 2021
Takuya Noguchi, Makoto Kyougoku, Takayuki Kawakami, Yukari Nishimoto, Kenzo Kashihara
The findings of positive psychology have also been suggested in occupational science to be useful in occupational therapy (Robinson et al., 2012). For example, improvements in self-esteem and subjective well-being have been reported in research on flow (Csikszentmihalyi et al., 2014; Larson & von Eye, 2010; Rebeiro & Polgar, 1999; Wright et al., 2007). According to Seligman (2012), engagement is described as “becoming one with the music.” This is the same concept as Csikszentmihalyi and LeFevre (1989) concept of “flow.” Flow involves losing one’s self-consciousness and becoming completely immersed in an activity. That is, living in the present moment and focusing completely on the task at hand. Participation in meaningful occupations has been reported to promote occupational performance and contribute to health and well-being (Eklund et al., 2017; Hocking, 2014; Wilcock, 2004). These studies emphasize the importance of occupation in our current understanding of human well-being, making it an essential piece of knowledge in occupational therapy practice. Occupational therapists believe that there is a relationship between occupation, health, and well-being. Indeed, previous studies that have examined these relationships provide moderate to strong evidence that occupation has an important impact on health and well-being (Law et al., 1998). Therefore, the occupations used in this program could be summarized as “occupations that contribute to the enhancement of human well-being” because they are what humans experience in their daily life.
Do professional communities enhance the personal and professional well-being of minority women? The case of Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2020
Tehila Kalagy, Asaf Malchi, Orna Braun-Lewensohn
Studies of employment in the context of positive psychology have revealed that a tendency to experience positive emotions can significantly impact work done by employees. People who tend to have higher scores on measures of positive feelings are often described as more passionate, driven, and excited about their workplaces. Similarly, they also report greater satisfaction from their work (Littman-Ovadia & Lavy, 2012). Park et al. (2004) referred to ‘personal zest’ as an important platform of positive emotion and found that it does a good job of predicting satisfaction with one’s workplace. In practice, positive feelings at work may be related to a number of processes that intensify both an employee’s sense of self-actualisation and his or her productivity (Compton & Hoffman, 2019).