Positive Psych

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Affect

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Immediate, physiological response to a stimulus

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Emotion

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Judgement about important things

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Subjective well-being

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A person’s individual judgment about his or her current status in the world.

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Happiness

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a positive emotional state that is subjectively defined by each person.

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Self-efficacy

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Belief that one’s skills and capabilities are enough to accomplish one’s desired goals in a specific situation.

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Optimism

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One’s expectancy that good things rather than bad will happen. It is a stable trait in some people and is independent of self-efficacy.

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Hope

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Goal-directed thinking in which a person has the perceived capacity to find routes to desired goals (pathways thinking) and the requisite motivations to use those routes (agency
thinking).

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Altruism

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Actions or behaviors that are intended to benefit another person.

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Egotism

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The motive to pursue some sort of personal gain or benefit through targeted behavior.

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Empathy

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An emotional response to the perceived plight of another person. Empathy may entail the ability to experience emotions similar to the other person’s ora sense oftenderheartedness toward that person.

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Gratitude

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Being thankful for and appreciating the actions of another. Gratitude emerges upon recognizing that one has received a positive outcome from another person who behaved in a manner that was costly to him or her, valuable to the recipient, and intentionally rendered.

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Forgiveness (as defined by Thompson and colleagues)

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A freeing from a negative attachment to the source of the transgression. This definition of forgiveness allows the target of forgiveness to be oneself, another person, or a
situation.

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Forgiveness (as defined by McCullough and colleagues)

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An increase in prosocial motivation such that there is less desire to avoid or seek revenge against the transgressor and an increased desire to act positively toward the transgressing person. This theory of forgiveness is applicable only when another person is the target ofthe transgression.

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Forgiveness (as defined by Enright and colleagues)

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The willingness to give up resentment,negative judgment, and indifference toward the transgressor and to give undeserved compassion, generosity, and benevolence to him or her. Enright and colleagues also limit their definition
of forgiveness to people and do not include situations.

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Forgiveness (as defined by Tangney and colleagues)

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A process involving “(1) [C]ognitiveaffective transformation following a transgression in which (2) the victim makes a realistic assessment ofthe harm done and acknowledges the
perpetrator’s responsibility, but (3) freely chooses to “cancel the debt,” giving up the need for revenge or deserved punishments and any quest for restitution. This “canceling of the debt” also involves (4) a “cancellation of negative emotions” directly related to the transgression. In particular, in forgiving, the victim overcomes his or her feelings ofresentment and anger for the act. In short, by forgiving, the
harmed individual (5) essentially removes himself or herself from the victim role”

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Flourishing relationship

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A good relationship that continues to get better due to the concerted effort ofboth partners.

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Companionate love

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A form ofromantic love characterized by the soothing and steady warmth that sustains a relationship.

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Consummate love

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The most durable type of love, manifested when all three components (passion, intimacy, commitment) are present at
high levels and in balance across both partners.

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Passionate love

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A form of romantic love characterized by the intense arousal that fuels a romantic union.

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Attachment system

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The sum of emotional and physical proximity-seeking behaviors toward the caregiver, developed by the child as
a result of adaptive and maladaptive parent behaviors. Regulates the pattern of attachment characteristic ofthe child.

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Adaptive parental behaviors

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Parents’ appropriate responsiveness to a child’s behavioral cues (i.e., smiling).

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Maladaptive parental behaviors

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Parents’ chaotic or unplanned attempts to meet a child’s needs.