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  • Art-of-Living

    A Concept to Enhance Happiness

    by Bernhard Schmitz ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume examines the questions of what constitutes a good life and how one can achieve happiness and well-being, and analyses different ways in which people can strive for a good life. First, it presents an overview on important concepts in psychology that are related to living a good life. Then, a new approach is introduced: the concept of art-of-living as a holistic way to reach happiness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Happiness in Children

    Measurement, Correlates and Enhancement of Positive Subjective Well-Being

    by Mark D Holder ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This briefs summarizes the research on positive well-being in children, with a particular focus on their happiness. It starts with a discussion of the constructs of positive psychology (i.e., well-being, happiness and life satisfaction), and then outlines the research that shows the importance of studying well-being. Next, it explores how researchers measure happiness and what these measures tell ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology

    The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi‘s work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and in the footsteps of William James, Csikszentmihalyi explores the allocation of attention, the when and where and the amount of attention humans ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Theory, Research, and Practical Guidelines for Family Life Coaching

    by Kimberly Allen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume focuses on breaking ground with family coaching, presenting theory, research and practical guidelines for researchers, educators and practitioners. Readers will discover a theoretical overview of coaching psychology and family science, accessibly presented research and models of family coaching and family life education. The insight this book provides into family systems and practical ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Systems Model of Creativity

    The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity. Starting with his seminal 1964 study on creativity up to his 2010 publication in Newsweek, the volume spans over four decades of research and writing and clearly shows Csikszentmihalyi’s own development as an academic, psychologist, researcher and person. Unconventional and unorthodox in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

    by Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Early in this century, most empirically oriented psychologists believed that all motivation was based in the physiology of a set of non-nervous system tissue needs. The theories of that era reflected this belief and used it in an attempt to explain an increasing number of phenomena. It was not until the 1950s that it became irrefutably clear that much of human motivation is based not in these ... Read more

    $296.09 USD

  • Faith from a Positive Psychology Perspective

    by Cindy Miller-Perrin, Elizabeth Krumrei Mancuso ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book highlights religious faith from a positive psychology perspective, examining the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning. It takes a perspective of religious diversity that incorporates international and cross-cultural work. The empirical literature on the role of faith and cognition, faith and emotion, and faith and behaviour is addressed including how ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Pursuit of Happiness and the Traditions of Wisdom

    by Vincenzo Giorgino ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a discussion of happiness that takes the shape of a dialogue between contemplative knowledge and practice or the wisdom traditions and the social sciences. It examines the different definitions of happiness in relation to wisdom traditions and the impact of these traditions on current research. It explores topics such as the pursuit of a good life, the pursuit of eudaimonia and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rethinking Youth Wellbeing

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katie Wright, Julie McLeod ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing a range of school programs and social interventions and increasingly shaping everyday understandings of young people. Drawing on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Studies In Expressive Movement

    by Gordon W. Allport ...
    Investigations of personality may be focused upon any one of three different levels of phenomena. The first is the level of traits, interests, attitudes, or sentiments considered as composing an "inner" personality; the second is the level of behaviour and expression; the third is the level of impression, the perception and interpretation of behaviour by another. Since a discovery on one of these ... Read more

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  • Positivism in Psychology

    Historical and Contemporary Problems

    Edited by Charles W. Tolman ...
    Series series Recent Research in Psychology
    Positivism needs further scrutiny. In recent years, there has been little consensus about the nature of positivism or about the precise forms its influence has taken on psychological theory. One symptom of this lack of clarity has been that ostensibly anti-positivist psychological theorizing is frequently found reproducing one or more distinctively positivist assumptions. The contributors to this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Friendship and Happiness

    Across the Life-Span and Cultures

    Edited by Melikşah Demir ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This is the first book that explicitly focuses on the relationships between various types of friendship experiences and happiness. It addresses historical, theoretical, and measurement issues in the study of friendship and happiness (e.g., why friends are important for happiness).In order to achieve a balanced evaluation of this area as a whole, many chapters in the book conclude with a critical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD