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Category: Accomplishment

Accomplished Life / Accomplishment / Engaged Life / Engagement / Happiness / Meaning / Meaningful Life / Pleasant Life / Positive Emotions / Positive Relationships / Relational Life

Well-Being and the Five ‘Happy’ Lives

- January 26, 2021January 27, 2021 - PPL Admin

By Chris Heffner, PsyD, PhD Well-Being and The PERMA Model Seligman (2011) argues that well-being is enhanced through thriving in one or more pillars of well-being. His model, often referred to as the PERMA Model, consists of Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (or Achievement). The more we thrive in each of these, the […]

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Accomplishment / Engagement / Grit

Grit Can be Developed

- April 3, 2020December 15, 2020 - PPL Admin

By Crystal Hall What do you think of when you hear the word “grit”? Without context, maybe we think of something that is dirty or perhaps course. The Oxford online dictionary has two definitions of grit. The second is more applicable to the field of positive psychology. Grit is courage and resolve or strength of […]

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Accomplishment / Engagement

Flow: A State of Full Engagement

- January 11, 2020January 26, 2021 - PPL Admin

Flow is “a psychological state involving the positive experience of being fully engaged in the successful pursuit of an activity” (Marin & Bhattacharya, 2013, p. 1)

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Accomplishment / Engagement / Meaning / Positive Emotions / Positive Relationships

A Negative Beginning to Positive Psychology: Part 1

- December 28, 2019December 15, 2020 - PPL Admin

By Chris Heffner, PsyD, PhD It didn’t Start Off Very Positive I could not think of a better or more ironic way to start a paper on the history of positive psychology than with a quote on the inevitability of pain and suffering. So here it is: “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward […]

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