Based on a sample of 237 university undergraduate students, we examined the 24 Values in Action (VIA) character strengths in relation to two indices of academic success--student satisfaction and grade point average (GPA). All 24 character strengths were positively and significantly related to General Life Satisfaction; 22 were significantly, positively related to College Satisfaction; and 16, t...

Early to late adolescents (aged 12-21) experience diverse and fluctuating psychological, mental, mind, physical dynamics. Living in a household is also not easy faces many problems. Thus, getting married at young age potentially influences authentic happiness among women. This paper describes the levels of women who age. research used quantitative method literature studies. The population was K...

In his Authentic Happiness Theory, Seligman describes three orientations that lead to happiness: The life of pleasure, the life of engagement, and the life of meaning (in Authentic happiness, Free Press, New York, 2002). The Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire (OTH; Peterson et al. in J Happiness Stud 6:25–41, 2005) has been developed as a subjective measure for these three orientations. In...

As digital technology has become indispensable, its overuse resulted in mental health issues for many users. While it benefits people by providing fast and plentiful information, also creates sadness, anxiety, stress. This study aimed to assess the well-being of users before, during, six months after attending a coaching session that was designed according International Coaching Federation (ICF...

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview the distinctive features interventions, tasks, and exercises. It intended lay theoretical ground a forthcoming dissertation which based on action research using positive psychology-based tasks designed or adapted for secondary English-as-aforeign-language classroom. Therefore, it essential first understand underpinnings task-based language t...

Besarnya angka pengangguran di Indonesia saat ini masih menjadi sebuah problem ketenagakerjaan yang dihadapi. Ketidak seimbangan angkatan kerja dan jumlah lowongan juga ikut faktor tingginya Indonesia. Akibat dari kondisi menganggur akan berdampak buruk pada kesejahteraan subjektif menurunnya optimisme. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui hubungan antara optimisme dewasa muda. Ada 3 hipotesis da...

Hayatı nasıl daha iyi yaşayacağımız ve mutlu olacağımıza dair sorular birçok psikoloğun çalışmasına rehberlik etmektedir. 20. yüzyılın sonlarında da psikoloji literatürüne sunduğu mutluluk formülü, pozitif insan deneyiminin yönleri bilimsel olarak işleyişi ile ortaya çıkan psikolojinin temsilcisi Martin Seligman’ın alana yönelik kapsamlı bir giriş̧ yazdığı "Gerçek Mutluluk" eseri de bu sorulara ...

We investigated relations among strengths of character in 881 students from Croatian universities. We also examined links between strengths and various well-being indices. Our conceptualization was based on the Values in Action classification system with 24 strengths organized within six superordinate virtues (Peterson & Seligman, 2004). A factor analysis led to a four-factor solution; factors ...

This paper examines extensions by Dretske, Barwise, Seligman and others to the Shannon-Weaver model of information communication, with special reference to geographic information. Classifications of entities into types are taken as the basis for information repositories, while structure-preserving mappins called infomorphism provide the linkages. A key notion is that of a channel, which can be ...