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83 relations: Acceptance, Adaptive behavior, Affect (psychology), Amends, Anger, Attention, Autonomy, Barbara Fredrickson, Blood pressure, Broaden-and-build, Carol Ryff, Circles of Sustainability, Civic engagement, Cognition, Conceptualization (information science), Contentment, Corey Keyes, Creativity, Culture, Depression (mood), Donation, Emotion, Empirical evidence, Engagement, Eudaimonia, Evolution, Fear, Feeling, Fight-or-flight response, Good and evil, Guilt (emotion), Happiness, Hemodynamics, Human body, Interpersonal relationship, Intervention (counseling), Intuition, Involvement, Life satisfaction, Locus of control, Longevity, Martin Seligman, Meaning (existential), Meaning of life, Mental disorder, Mental health, Mental process, Mood (psychology), Motivation, Muscle, ..., Negative affectivity, Neo-Aristotelianism (rhetorical criticism), Office, Operationalization, Pathology, Personal development, Physiology, Pleasure, Positive affectivity, Positive psychology, Potential, Prosocial behavior, Psychological resilience, Psychologist, Psychology, Pupil, Quantile, Revenge, Self-acceptance, Self-efficacy, Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being, Skill, Social, Social environment, Social integration, Social support, Student, Subjective well-being, Teacher, Theory, Virtue, Volunteering, Well-being. Expand index (33 more) »
Acceptance
Acceptance in human psychology is a person's assent to the reality of a situation, recognizing a process or condition (often a negative or uncomfortable situation) without attempting to change it or protest it.
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Adaptive behavior
Adaptive behavior refers to behavior that enables a person (usually used in the context of children) to get along in his or her environment with greatest success and least conflict with others.
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Affect (psychology)
Affect is a concept used in psychology to describe the experience of feeling or emotion.
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Amends
"Amends" is episode ten of season three of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Anger
Anger or wrath is an intense negative emotion.
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Attention
Attention, also referred to as enthrallment, is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether deemed subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.
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Autonomy
In development or moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, un-coerced decision.
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Barbara Fredrickson
Barbara Lee Fredrickson (born June 15, 1964) is an American professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology.
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Blood pressure
Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.
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Broaden-and-build
The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions suggests that positive emotions (viz. enjoyment/happiness/joy, and perhaps interest/anticipation) broaden one's awareness and encourage novel, varied, and exploratory thoughts and actions.
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Carol Ryff
Carol Diane Ryff is an American academic and psychologist.
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Circles of Sustainability
Circles of Sustainability is a method for understanding and assessing sustainability, and for managing projects directed towards socially sustainable outcomes.
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Civic engagement
Civic engagement or civic participation is any individual or group activity done with the intent to advocate on behalf of the public.
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Cognition
Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
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Conceptualization (information science)
In information science a conceptualization is an abstract simplified view of some selected part of the world, containing the objects, concepts, and other entities that are presumed of interest for some particular purpose and the relationships between them.
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Contentment
Contentment is a mental or emotional state of satisfaction maybe drawn from being at ease in one's situation, body and mind.
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Corey Keyes
Corey Keyes is an American sociologist and psychologist.
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Creativity
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.
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Culture
Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.
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Depression (mood)
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.
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Donation
A donation is a gift for charity, humanitarian aid, or to benefit a cause.
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Emotion
Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.
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Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence, also known as sensory experience, is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation.
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Engagement
An engagement, betrothal, or fiancer is a promise to wed, and also the period of time between a marriage proposal and a marriage.
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Eudaimonia
Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία), sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia, is a Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare; however, "human flourishing or prosperity" has been proposed as a more accurate translation.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Fear
Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organisms, which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior, such as fleeing, hiding, or freezing from perceived traumatic events.
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Feeling
Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel.
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Fight-or-flight response
The fight-or-flight response (also called hyperarousal, or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.
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Good and evil
In religion, ethics, philosophy, and psychology "good and evil" is a very common dichotomy.
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Guilt (emotion)
Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person believes or realizes—accurately or not—that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a universal moral standard and bears significant responsibility for that violation.
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Happiness
In psychology, happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
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Hemodynamics
Hemodynamics or hæmodynamics is the dynamics of blood flow.
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Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human being.
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Interpersonal relationship
An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.
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Intervention (counseling)
An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
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Intuition
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired.
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Involvement
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Life satisfaction
Life satisfaction is the way in which people show their emotions and feelings (moods) and how they feel about their directions and options for the future.
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Locus of control
In personality psychology, locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control.
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Longevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography.
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Martin Seligman
Martin E. P. "Marty" Seligman (born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books.
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Meaning (existential)
Meaning in existentialism is descriptive; therefore it is unlike typical, prescriptive conceptions of "the meaning of life".
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Meaning of life
The meaning of life, or the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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Mental health
Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.
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Mental process
Mental process or mental function are all the things that individuals can do with their minds.
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Mood (psychology)
In psychology, a mood is an emotional state.
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Motivation
Motivation is the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs.
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Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals.
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Negative affectivity
Negative affectivity (NA), or negative affect, is a personality variable that involves the experience of negative emotions and poor self-concept.
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Neo-Aristotelianism (rhetorical criticism)
Neo-Aristotelianism is a view of literature and rhetorical criticism propagated by the Chicago School — Ronald S. Crane, Elder Olson, Richard McKeon, Wayne Booth, and others — which means.
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Office
An office is generally a room or other area where administrative work is done by an organization's users in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization.
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Operationalization
In research design, especially in psychology, social sciences, life sciences, and physics, operationalization is a process of defining the measurement of a phenomenon that is not directly measurable, though its existence is indicated by other phenomena.
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Pathology
Pathology (from the Ancient Greek roots of pathos (πάθος), meaning "experience" or "suffering" and -logia (-λογία), "study of") is a significant field in modern medical diagnosis and medical research, concerned mainly with the causal study of disease, whether caused by pathogens or non-infectious physiological disorder.
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Personal development
Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations.
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Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.
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Pleasure
Pleasure is a broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking.
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Positive affectivity
Positive affectivity (PA) is a human characteristic that describes how much people experience positive affects (sensations, emotions, sentiments...); and as a consequence how they interact with others and with their surroundings.
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Positive psychology
Positive psychology is "the scientific study of what makes life most worth living",Christopher Peterson (2008), or "the scientific study of positive human functioning and flourishing on multiple levels that include the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life".
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Potential
Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability.
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Prosocial behavior
Prosocial behavior, or "voluntary behavior intended to benefit another", is a social behavior that "benefit other people or society as a whole", "such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering".
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Psychological resilience
Psychological resilience is the ability to successfully cope with a crisis and to return to pre-crisis status quickly.
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Psychologist
A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.
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Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
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Pupil
The pupil is a hole located in the center of the iris of the eye that allows light to strike the retina.
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Quantile
In statistics and probability quantiles are cut points dividing the range of a probability distribution into contiguous intervals with equal probabilities, or dividing the observations in a sample in the same way.
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Revenge
Revenge is a form of justice enacted in the absence or defiance of the norms of formal law and jurisprudence.
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Self-acceptance
Self-acceptance is acceptance of self.
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Self-efficacy
Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in his or her innate ability to achieve goals.
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Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being
The Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being is a theory developed by Carol Ryff which determines six factors which contribute to an individual's psychological well-being, contentment, and happiness.
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Skill
A skill is the ability to carry out a task with determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.
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Social
Living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.
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Social environment
The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops.
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Social integration
Social integration is the process during which newcomers or minorities are incorporated into the social structure of the host society.
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Social support
Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network.
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Student
A student is a learner or someone who attends an educational institution.
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Subjective well-being
Subjective well-being (SWB) is a self-reported measure of well-being, typically obtained by questionnaire.
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Teacher
A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.
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Theory
A theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking.
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Virtue
Virtue (virtus, ἀρετή "arete") is moral excellence.
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Volunteering
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain "to benefit another person, group or organization".
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Well-being
Well-being, wellbeing, or wellness is a general term for the condition of an individual or group.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourishing
