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A PATH TOWARDS FLOURISHING Positive psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning. It aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive. It focuses on the nature, manifestation, patterns, origins, dynamics, and enhancement of strengths on individual, group and community level. Life is a journey where you live your whole life trying to discover who you are and what it is about. Sometimes people may wonder 'why are they alive?', 'why are they here?', 'what is their purpose'. These type of questions are what make life interesting. There comes a time where we have to really sit down and ask ourselves those mind shuttering questions. So we decided to ask one of our students to give us their opinion to the following questions: With those answers being given mankind should start evaluating and monitoring their lives and start putting more efforts in things that really matters in their lives. Factors driving communities and individuals to succeed is unity, communication and love towards yourself and other people. In conclusion we can say that we agree with Wissing, et al that positive psychology endeavours to enhance the quality of human life by focusing on strengths and already existing resources, enriching life and promoting optimal functioning. - Kgothatso Pooe Q: What is a good and meaning for life? A: Having people who love you surrounding you and supporting you in anything and everything you do. People who would see success in you and never judge your decisions and actions. Q: How do we live the good life? A: Any life you live is a good or rather it can be a good life but we should never lose sight of what is important. Q: Do you think the life you are living is a good life and why is that? Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. Helen Keller A: Yes of course, I already have a family that loves me. A circle of friends that loves to be around me and of course a precious gift given to me by God - another day to live and express myself. 3 <strong>PSYC</strong>zine Your guide on the road to wellness issue 01/2015
HEALTH AND WELLNESS According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 1986) health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and is not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Staying healthy is very important for human existence, to help our coming generation to have stronger genetic mutations and keeping our traits we have to conserve them and keep ourselves healthy at the same time. Health goes hand in hand with wellness but what is wellness really? Wellness is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the presence). Happiness is jolly feeling that makes us feel positive about life and everything that is happening around us. It makes us socially active and helps us relate to other people. So when you're having a nice day just know other people are having the worst. We have two of perspectives: Hedonic perspective consists of happiness, enjoyment, pleasure, satisfaction and comfort. Eudemonic perspective deals with the meaning, purpose, expression of potential and being included with something larger than the self (functioning well). The hedonic perspective on well-being is about having more pleasant experiences than negative ones and living a happy and satisfying life. What is subjective well-being?? Subjective well-being are those facets of life that make us feel good or make us happy. Subjective well-being consists of three facets. 1. A general evaluation of one's life as being good 2. Having more positive emotions 3 . Having fewer negative emotions SWB = life satisfaction + high positive affect + low negative affect Life satisfaction is when we evaluate our lives against our own standards. our standards will be the ones that determine our happiness, when we evaluate our lives we get to check if our standards are too low or too high, and if we have unrealistic standards, whether high or low, we can end up happy or sad, that is why it is one of the facets of SWB. Affect is the emotions and emotional state of a person. The presence of more positive emotions, in comparison to negative ones, is associated with higher levels of SWB. Positive emotions including love, contentment and joy are important for well-being and can contribute to building our psychological resources. We measure subjective well-being by measuring life satisfaction. The satisfaction with life scale is the most widely used. The affect is also a way of measuring subjective well-being. The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), d e v e l o p e d b y W a t s o n , C l a r k a n d Tellegen(1998), is most often used to evaluate the affect in subjective well-being. Global scales also measures SWB. The subjective happiness scale (SHS) developed by Lyubomirsky and Lepper (1999) is used to measure global scales. The stability of SWB, the big question will be if it will stay the same or fluctuate over the life span, but Pavot and Diener suggest that the levels of SWB are relatively stable for most people over time. We have seen how SWB is related and linked to our everyday lives so with the following demographic variables we can have a further and clearer understanding of how it works. These demographic variables include age, gender, marital status, intelligence and education, and employment. Age: Life satisfaction seem to remain stable across the lifespan, however it has been shown to increase between the ages 40 - 65 and then decreases towards the end of line. Gender: Women and men experience the same amount of SWB. - Women experience both positive and negative emotions more frequently and more intensely. Marital status: Marriage is associated with happiness and high levels of SWB. Intelligence and education: Emotional intelligence seems to be associated with well being. Employment: Job satisfaction leads to happiness. - How an individual views their work and career has an effect on SWB. - Kgothatso Pooe <strong>PSYC</strong>zine Your guide on the road to wellness issue 01/2015 4
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