Positive Psychology: An Introduction

Abstract

This chapter gives a brief overview of the history of Positive Psychology and defines the key elements of it. Positive psychology is a discipline that conducts research and practices based on a scientific approach to human development. Positive psychology is concerned with many concepts that affect individual happiness and psychological well-being. In this section, subjective well-being, life satisfaction, psychological well-being, and optimism which are among the most researched concepts in positive psychology, are explained as the basic building blocks of Positive Psychology. Within the framework of the positive psychology approach, researches and studies are carried out to understand and develop the positive aspects of human personality.