Two university varsity swimming teams took the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) at the start of the season. Swimmers with a pessimistic explanatory style wellt on to show more unexpected poor performances during competition titan optimistic swimmers. We then tested the purported mechanism of this effect by experimentally simulating defeat, giving each swimmer falsely negative' times. Per...

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...

Positive psychology has been introduced to the applied linguistics literature with broad goal of improving experience language learners and teachers through a variety interventions (MacIntyre & Mercer, 2014; Gabryś-Barker Gałajda, 2016). “The aim positive is catalyze change in from preoccupation only repairing worst things life also building best qualities life” (Seligman &Csikszentmiha...

This book explores a specific field of psychological research, but it also celebrates the profound contributions to this field of Martin E. P. Seligman. Therefore, the book blends the history of this research enterprise and Seligman's own intellectual history. This chapter reviews the modest origins of the phenomenon of "learned helplessness" in the animal laboratory, its extensions to human be...