ON THE FORERUNNERS OF THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY VISION

• Authors: Pléh Csaba

Title variants

HU

A pozitív pszichológiai szemlélet előfutárairól

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The paper surveys the intellectual past in the formation of positive psychology views. Among them, one can find the role attributed to culture and personality in middle 19th Century visions of John Stuart Mill, the problem of activation and energy mobilization, the allocation of the competence notion in the system of human motives, an active vision of personality with foregrounding self actualization and questioning over determinism.

Keywords

EN

activation; personality; competence; motivational systems; self actualization

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 13-18
• Document type: REVIEW

Contributors

author

Pléh Csaba