Understanding Positive Life. Research and Practice on Positive Psychology

Лиссабон : Climepsi Editores, 2009.

Научный редактор: T. Freire

Positive Psychology has become a major approach to the scientific study of individual, social, community and cultural processes. This book includes a selection of papers presented at the 3rd European Conference on Positive Psychology, organized in Braga at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2006. The title of the book reflects its main purpose and a main concern for positive psychology - Understanding Positive Life - balanced between the two scientific pillars, the research and the practice. Several contributions concerning theory, research and practice are presented in three different parts: Happiness, Well-being and Life Satisfaction (Part I); Performance, Coping and Quality of life (Part II); and assessment, Intervention and Practice for a Positive Life (Part III). Each part includes eight chapters, with a great diversity of authors coming from different countries.

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Social Desirability in Positive Psychology: Bias or Desirable Sociality?

Осин Е. Н., , in: Understanding Positive Life. Research and Practice on Positive Psychology.: Lisbon: Climepsi Editores, 2009. P. 421–442.

The chapter presents the results of three studies investigating the associations between positive psychological instruments and social desirability measures (both subjective and objective) in Russian samples. ...

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Ключевые слова: well-being, positive psychology