Video Games and Well-being by Rachel Kowert

Author:Rachel Kowert
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030327705
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Instead of only repairing what’s bad, positive psychology uniquely builds upon what’s good and successful in life (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Within the field of positive psychology, mental health professionals, and scientists focus on variables like character strengths, well-being, self-confidence, compassion, elevation, and optimism (Ackerman, 2019). It is strength-based! Positive psychologists asks questions like what allows humans to persist? What makes them resilient? What makes trauma survivors experience post-traumatic growth versus post-traumatic stress? What makes relationships work versus fail? As it turns out, these questions are incredibly important to ask. For instance, a Gallup poll found that the successful employees and CEOs stood out among their peers in their awareness and dependence on their own strengths versus an understanding and accommodation of their weaknesses (Flade, Asplund, & Elliot, 2015). In other words, it is often more beneficial to further develop one’s strengths more (or at least in addition to) than buffer one’s weaknesses.

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