The present study aimed to explore the relations between parental and children’s character strengths and children’s school adjustment during the critical period of school entry. Participants were 479 parents and 16 firstgrade teachers of 479 first-grade schoolchildren from five public elementary schools in Israel....

There are many beliefs about the patterning of positive and negative mood over the course of the week. Support has been found for ‘Blue Monday’ ‘Thank God it’s Friday’ and Weekdays versus Weekend effects although in relatively small studies and often with student samples....

Purpose is a stable and generalized intention to accomplish something that is at once important to self and directed at making a difference in the world beyond the self....

Patience is the propensity to wait calmly in the face of frustration or adversity. The new 3-Factor Patience Scale (Study 1) measures three types of patience (interpersonal life hardship and daily hassles patience) which differentially relate to well-being and personality....

A Review of Positive Psychology Interventions

We built upon previous laboratory studies by examining the independent and interactive effects of restitution and apology on behavioral and self-reported measures relevant to forgiveness. Undergraduates (N¼155) received two of 10 tickets in a distribution. Some thought another participant was the distributor; others thought it was random....

Positive psychology interventions target positive emotions in order to increase happiness engagement in life and well being while also ameliorating the impact of symptoms on a person’s life. We examined an adapted version of group positive psychotherapy for people with schizophrenia (Positive Living (PL)) in a pilot study....

According to the meaning making model traumatic events disrupt global meaning systems and meaning making coping helps restore congruency between global meaning and appraisals of traumatic events....

Relationship problems are negatively associated with life satisfaction. Bottom-up theories assume that relationship quality affects life satisfaction while top-down theories assume that global personality dispositions affect evaluations of relationship quality....

Bryant and Veroff (2007 Savoring: A new model of positive experience. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) have proposed that savoring namely regulating the emotional impact of positive events by one’s cognitive or behavioral responses increases happiness....