As a war baby growing up in war-torn China, Paul T. P. Wong learned even as a child that life was a constant battle. His parents believed that endurance of suffering and higher education were essential to living a good life. It is not surprising that Paul Wong’s...
Abstract More than a decade has passed since major concerns emerged about the WEIRD-centric focus of mainstream psychological science. Since then, many calls have been made for the discipline of psychology (and other disciplines within the social sciences) to become...
*This is an unrevised version of the paper. (This paper was co-authored with Richard G. Cowden, Claude-Hélène Mayer, & Victoria L. Bowers) Abstract Recent developments in positive psychology and wellbeing research highlight the tremendous capacity for individual...
(This paper was co-authored with Gökmen Arslan, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University) Positive psychology emphasizes the importance of virtues and an individual’s signature strengths, such as hope and gratitude (Lopez & Snyder, 2009; Peterson & Seligman, 2004). In...
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacies of the current healthcare system and needs a paradigm change, which is holistic, and community based illustrated by the healing wheel. The present paper proposes that existential positive psychology (PP 2.0)...
