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Contemporary Debate - Positive psychology in today's society.…
Contemporary Debate - Positive psychology in today's society.
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Education
Seligman proposed positive psychology curriculum (PPC).
(1) promote skills and strengths that are valued by most, including parents.
(2) produce measurable in students well being and behaviour.
(3) facilitate students engagement in learning and achieving
24 months after PPC only 24% had symptoms of depression compared to 44% in control group.
PPC students found to be more cooperative and had better social skills.
Work
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi work = major source of happiness
Flow theory - experiences become most positive when both challenges and skills are high; the person is not only enjoying the moment but also stretching capabilities with the likelihood of learning new skills and self esteem.
flow occurs more than 3x at work than at leisure.
Leisure and lifestyle advice
Increase of flow = increase in quality of time conscious and more active in leisure time.
'Action for Happiness' - creating a happier society for everyone and also offers content such as 10 keys to happier living.
Health
6,000 women and men - aged 25 to 74 for 20 years. ppts with high levels of emotional vitality had a reduced risk of coronary heart disease.
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Research supporting PPC - small scale or short term
Seligman also admitted that further research needs to be conducted to ensure that such programmes are effective with a variety of students from different cultures and backgrounds.
Adding PPC may mean other essential subjects may have to be dropped.
Financial Times suggested that this means society may end up paying more for students to leave school with fewer academic achievements.
Work
'choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life' inst a new idea - Chinese sage Confucius 551 BC.
Therefore Positive psychology may not be offering us anything new that society doesn't know about.
Western cultures seek happiness through work whereas in poorer societies people may not have the luxury and work may be more important than happiness.
Leisure and lifestyle advice
Leisure activities that increase flow may not be available to all possibly due to lack of time and financial costs.
Difficult to assess the impact that movements such as 'action for happiness'have on the UK - may only attract wealthy individuals for example.
Health
difficult to establish cause and effect between health and happiness..
Economical
Staff sickness (unhappiness and stress) presenteeism costing the UK £26 billion.
Happy workers found to be 12% more productive