*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)...
Piers Worth’s textbook on positive psychology represents a landmark publication, because it heals the unfortunate divide between humanistic and positive psychology and demonstrates that an integration between these two schools can be done to advance the science of...
This is Paul T. P. Wong’s Keynote Abstract for the upcoming 11th Biennial International Meaning Conference. This keynote will provide a framework for existential positive psychology (PP 2.0) which embraces suffering as the foundation for flourishing. According...
