Relevance of positive psychology

• Education

  Seligman - PPC (positive psychology curriculum) - promote skills and strengths valued by most (parents and teachers)

  Randomly allocated - 347 to PPC / not. questionnaire filled by parents/student and teacher had better social skills and more cooperative - enhance classroom goals
• Education

  • Lack of empirical evidence
  • Spence + Shortt- evidence on small-scale interventions
  • Need long-term research - Seligman agreed
  • Need to drop important courses- limited budgets and demands
• Work

  Milhay - positive when challenge/skill high - enjoy moment, stretch likelihood of learning new skills + increase self-esteem

  Flow 3x more than leisure

  Improve quality of life
• Work

  'choose a job you love...' - taught us what we already know

  In societies than are poor jobs are for living and making money, having a job you enjoy/ for happiness is a luxury (Western)
• Leisure and lifestyle advice

  Milhay and LeFevre - increase flow and quality of life more conscious/ active lifestyle.

  Online project - Action for happiness (positive social change) bring people together for a walk, play part in creating happier society

  Content - 10 keys to happier living (problems like depression/anxiety)
• Leisure and Lifestyle


  Increase flow but many lack dedicated time due to financial costs

  Can't assess Action for Happiness variables aren't controlled

  Wealthy people use movement - beneficial? happy due to wealth may not be causing happiness