Positive Psychology Links
General Positive Psychology sites
Positive
Psychology Coaching - Our companion site where you can access life
coaching programmes based on the principles of Positive Psychology.
Authentic
Happiness - The main website of Martin Seligman, one of the leading
figures in Positive Psychology. This site contains a number of
self-awareness questionnaires, including the VIA Strengths tool for
identifying your signature strengths, the authentic happiness inventory,
the optimism and gratitude tests as well as the satisfaction with life
questionnaire amongst many others.
http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/
Martin Seligman's Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Pennsylvania
with articles and links to on-line tests
http://www.centreforconfidence.co.uk/ Centre for Confidence based in
Scotland and covers much more than confidence. Go to the resources
section and choose PP Resources for lots of information.
http://www.enpp.org/ The European
Network for Positive Psychology with links to other useful sites and
some academic course material.
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/well-being_current.aspx The New
Economics Foundation Centre for Well-being with some interesting work
focused particularly on well-being in society.
http://qlrc.cgu.edu/about.htm
The Quality of Life Research Centre is a
non-profit research institute that studies "positive psychology"; that
is, human strengths such as optimism, creativity, intrinsic motivation,
and responsibility.
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/
Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory (a.k.a. PEPLab). They
study people’s emotions, particularly their positive emotions. They are
interested in how positive emotions affect people’s thinking patterns,
social behaviour, and physiological reactions.
Strengths focused sites
http://www.viastrengths.org/
The Values In Action Strengths site based on the work of Martin
Seligman and colleagues. You can register here and take their on-line
questionnaire to identify your 'signature strengths'
https://www.strengthsfinder.com/ Gallup Strengths Finder (you need to
buy the Marcus Buckingham's
book
'Now discover your strengths' to use this). This has more of a business
focus than the VIA Strengths but you have to pay for it.
http://www.cappeu.org/ Centre for
Applied Positive Psychology set up in September 2006 by Alex Linley
focused particularly on identifying and developing strengths
https://wads.le.ac.uk/pc/ppp/index.html The Personality strengths
project set up by Alex Linley. There is a variety of on-line
questionnaires to complete to identify your strengths in different
areas.
Happiness & Well-being sites
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/ Ed Diener's work on subjective
well-being and happiness. Diener is one of the leading thinkers and
researchers in this area.
http://www.reflectivehappiness.com/ Dr. Seligman has developed an
on-line Reflective Happiness Program that dramatically decreases
depression and increases happiness through a series of simple,
formulated exercises and activities that take only a few minutes each
day. Requires payment for on-going use.
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/layard/default.asp Richard Layard's work on
happiness, depression and economics. Layard wrote 'Happiness. Lessons
from a new science'.
http://thehappinessshow.com/
Michael Fordyce and the Happiness Show. One of the early thinkers about
happiness, with many papers and access to on-line video.
Work oriented sites
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Positive/Default.htm The Center for
Positive Organizational Scholarship is committed to advancing research
in the emerging field of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS).
http://www.goodworkproject.org/ The GoodWork Project is a large
scale effort to identify individuals and institutions that exemplify
good work—work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and
meaningful
to its practitioners—and to determine how best to increase the incidence
of good work in our society.
Confidence focused sites
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