Happiness is often regarded as the true meaning of life, but if it is the true meaning of life why is no one able to give a definite answer to what happiness means? Philosophers, psychologist, scientist, and every other person have tried to define it, but not one answer seems to satisfy. There are authors who claim that there is no definite definition to happiness (Kingwell 413). However, there are people who claim that happiness is not the key to happiness rather it is living an excellent life, which is the key. Positive psychology is the name of this concept which was founded by several people. Founding principles, critiques and common grounds of positive psychology are to be discussed in this synthesis. As stated by Csikszentmihalyi,
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Schoch author of “A critique of Positive Psychology” states in the last line of his article that maybe it is not the experience of happiness that one needs but rather the meaning (453). He states that happiness is nothing but a profit to some people with the making of self help books and anti depressants happiness does have a measurement however it is all in dollar sales. Which is a direct contradiction to the main founding points of positive psychology. He claims that maybe all the testing and surveys done by scientist have not been done right. Another article that begins with a test that measures happiness is Senior 's, for she claims that her happiness number is 2.88 (422). At first her article begins with what seems to be in support of positive psychology however she ends criticizing it ' founders stating that Seligman is a pessimist and therefore does not accurately represent his …show more content…
For example it may be that one author believes that happiness is one thing and the other may believe it has another meaning. McCall addresses this in her article “Pig Happiness?” she claims that what makes happiness defective and why is it considered to be if one can not define happiness (411). Each author has a way of understanding happiness. Seligman et al. Csikszentmihalyi developed a way to understand happiness by coming up with a definition or more like a instruction booklet. Which informs the reader what a person needs to achieve in order to feel
Schoch author of “A critique of Positive Psychology” states in the last line of his article that maybe it is not the experience of happiness that one needs but rather the meaning (453). He states that happiness is nothing but a profit to some people with the making of self help books and anti depressants happiness does have a measurement however it is all in dollar sales. Which is a direct contradiction to the main founding points of positive psychology. He claims that maybe all the testing and surveys done by scientist have not been done right. Another article that begins with a test that measures happiness is Senior 's, for she claims that her happiness number is 2.88 (422). At first her article begins with what seems to be in support of positive psychology however she ends criticizing it ' founders stating that Seligman is a pessimist and therefore does not accurately represent his …show more content…
For example it may be that one author believes that happiness is one thing and the other may believe it has another meaning. McCall addresses this in her article “Pig Happiness?” she claims that what makes happiness defective and why is it considered to be if one can not define happiness (411). Each author has a way of understanding happiness. Seligman et al. Csikszentmihalyi developed a way to understand happiness by coming up with a definition or more like a instruction booklet. Which informs the reader what a person needs to achieve in order to feel