Miscellaneous
Cognitive assessment of an individual’s entire life
What is "life satisfaction"?
Whose mindset had a stronger impact on student well-being: students' or their instructors'?
Instructor mindset
After we recover from a trauma or challenge, we demonstrate skills and strengths we didn't know we had.
What is post-traumatic growth?
What are the three core components of meaning?
Comprehension
Purpose
Significance:
This paradox refers to the contradiction that while parents often report higher levels of daily stress, anxiety, and exhaustion, they also report greater overall life satisfaction and meaning
Sustained enthusiasm and persistence for
long-term goals
What is "grit"?
Experiencing flow may lead to an increase in both of these two constructs, one that seems negative and one positive.
(a) self-efficacy
(b) risky behavior
The psychosocial benefits of communicating personal accomplishments to others and receiving enthusiastic feedback
What is interpersonal Capitalization
It's the value I place on myself as a person, based on how much I like what I see in myself.
What is self-esteem?
Some negative life events that people may encounter and bring pressure to individuals
What are stressful life events?
The immediate effect of positive emotion on cognitive psychology tasks
What is broadening our thinking (and our thought-action repertoires)?
In the study examining the impact of a positive psychology based class called the Science of Happiness (SoH) on students' wellbeing, did wellbeing for those that took the class during the COVID-19 lockdown increase, decrease, or stay the same?
TB2 students did not improve, but they
also didn’t decline.
(The TB1 group (who took it previously)
experienced a drop in well-being during
lockdown.)
Life satisfaction was significantly correlated with all sleep variables except this one.
Bedtime deviation
A type of cognitive coping that acts as a resource in the long term, when dealing with uncontrollable stressors
What is positive reappraisal?
Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment
These are key promoters of successful aging and flourishing in late life
(a) Psychological resilience
(c) Overall Satisfaction with aging
The VIA strength with the strongest relationship with life satisfaction
What is Hope
It happens when those luxury items don't excite us anymore, after we buy them. Or, if we won't the lottery, it would explain why all the perks don't seem so special after a while.
What is habituation?
When we forget that we can be resilient when we need to be (and therefore anticipate the worst), we demonstrate this.
What is immune neglect?
We get the latest and greatest gadget, but after a while it's just not enough...so we have to go for the NEXT thing, and the next thing. It never ends....
What is the hedonic treadmill?
In one study we read, optimism training led to reductions in biological risk markers for this type of health.
Cardiovascular Health