TEN YEARS OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

• Authors: Oláh Attila , Máté Kapitány-Fövény

Title variants

HU

A pozitív pszichológia tíz éve

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The study reviews the first decade of the positive psychology, which defines itself the psychology of the new millennium. The study emphasizes the topics this new approach focuses on. It analyses the aspects of the structure of well-being, the research on positive emotions, and the models of healthy functioning from the thematic richness of the approaches. The study delineates the empirical research checking the validity of the constructs of subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and social well-being. The authors emphasize that positive psychology has become an approach, which oriented strongly health psychology, and a factor, which influenced the change concerning the aim and tasks of psychology in the public thinking in the first decade of its career.

Keywords

EN

positive psychology; subjective well-being; psychological well-being; social well-being; optimal well-being; flourishing; virtues

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-45
• Document type: REVIEW

Contributors

author

Oláh Attila

author

Máté Kapitány-Fövény