the basic objective of this paper was to study the flourishing of iranian students based on seligman model and its comparison based on demographic variables. to achieve this, 400 subjects of all students enrolled in the second semester of academic year of 2014-2015 in ferdowsi university of mashhad were randomly classified and studied as the sample group. flourishing questionnaire was used to t...

BACKGROUND Mental health outcomes among HIV-positive gay men are generally poorer than in the broader population. However, not all men in this population experience mental health problems. Although much is known about factors associated with depression and anxiety among HIV-positive gay men, little is known about factors associated with positive mental health. Such knowledge can be useful for o...

Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes, certainly including mental and physical health, but also encompassing happiness and life satisfaction, meanin...

Diener and colleagues (2010) created concise assessment tools to study flourishing and Positive and Negative emotions. The two scales had been validated with English-speaking and German-speaking participants. Nevertheless, its applicability for Chinese is not well established. The current study validated the two scales in traditional Chinese, using a randomly selected community sample. Both the...

In this essay, Doret J. de Ruyter defends the claim that parents as well as professional educators need to impart ideals to children in order to realize their wish that children become happy and flourishing adults. The argument consists of two parts. First, de Ruyter shows how ideals are important to construing the meaning of objective goods. Second, she contends that educating children with id...

This paper aims to offer conceptual clarification on the use of concept human flourishing with regard children. We will argue that can meaningfully be applied parts lives, specifically one's childhood, and discuss when we speak a child. Viewing children's lives in terms whether they are may able help us understand articulate which ways child's life go better or worse. is relevant, firstly, over...