Positive psychology

This book addresses the challenges typical technical training managers, and other technical managers face in justifying the return on investment of their programs, particularly for large-scale, investment-intensive programs.

This book provides a conceptual framework of global value chains, flexibility and sustainability, supported by research projects, case applications and models in various related areas organized into three parts.

This book broadens the research on the underworld of precarious and not-represented workers, through a selection of original case studies from across the globe written by leading experts.

This book is the first in a series on Chinese management based on the Global Chinese Management Conferences (from 2015 to 2017), an annual conference organized by the Sun Tzu Art of War Institute.

This book discusses the profound philosophy and practical psychology behind yoga, beyond its popular body-culture aspect.

This volume embodies the twin purpose of highlighting topics beyond the purview of themes commonly associated with workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment and of presenting insights into those occupations, professions  and sectors which either have received extensive research attention or hold a pronounced propensity to trigger workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment.

This volume addresses the rich and varied thoughts, concepts, approaches and leisure practices in sixteen countries of three continents---Australia, Asia and Africa.

Around the globe, there is a growing awareness of the importance of addressing students' social and emotional development and wellbeing during schooling.

La medicina psiquiátrica y las enfermedades del ánimo generan cada vez un mayor número de consultas alrededor del mundo.

This volume examines the developmental aspects of the general psychological construct of self-determination.

This volume collects the state-of-the-art research on forgiveness and mental and physical health and well-being.

Based on action research and implementation at one of the world's great schools, this book provides a much-needed exploration of how to implement positive education at a whole school level.

This is the first book that explicitly focuses on the relationships between various types of friendship experiences and happiness.

This book highlights religious faith from a positive psychology perspective, examining the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning.

This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges.

Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete.

The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied.

The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi's work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology.

This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity.

This volume describes a culture-fair perspective on positive psychology research and practice in Latin America.

This book presents an integrated review and critical analysis of the recent research in the positive psychology of religion, with focus on the positive psychology of religion across different cultures and religions.

This book discusses the impact and effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on quality of working life of employees.

This volume deals with strategies aimed at increasing psychological well-being in both clinical and non-clinical settings, with a special focus on the impact of cross-cultural influences on these processes.

The volume will be a collection of chapters about current theory, research, and practice related to multiculturalism and positive psychology.

This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project.

This volume summarizes and organizes a growing body of research supporting the role of motivation in adaptive and rewarding interpersonal interactions with others.

This book presents original happiness research from and about a region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness.

This volume integrates and makes sense of the growing body of theoretical and empirical research conducted on purpose across the lifespan.

This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world.

This book provides clear and sometimes surprising answers to why gratitude is important to living well.

This briefs reviews the literature on alexithymia with a particular focus on the relation between positive well-being and alexithymia.

Third generation coaching proposes a form of dialogue where coach and coachee are focused on creating space for reflection through collaborative practices and less concerned with fabricating quick solutions.

This book approaches the field of positive psychology from a post-modern perspective.

Concepts like Health and Well-being are not exclusive products of the Western culture.

This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies.

This edited volume takes an in depth exploration into the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences.

This book presents recent positive psychological research, applications and interventions being used among adolescents and children.

This specially selected collection of landmark work from the Journal of Happiness Studies maps the current contours, and the likely future direction, of research in a field with a fast-rising profile.

These are turbulent times in which it becomes increasingly important to survive and thrive despite stressful circumstances.

This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields.

The construct 'quality of life (QoL)', since the 1980s, when it was introduced, is being used mainly in the context of health problems.

This anthology focuses on empirical studies comparing cultures in relation to central positive psychological topics.

This briefs summarizes the research on positive well-being in children, with a particular focus on their happiness.

Relationships are at the heart of our lives; at home with our families, with our friends, in schools and colleges, with colleagues at the workplace and in our diverse communities.

The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research.

This publication titled, Training Manual for Human Resource Management provides readers with an introduction to human resource management.

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Management In ten volume, is a compilation of technical terms add expressions used in management literature and communications.

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Management In ten volume, is a compilation of technical terms add expressions used in management literature and communications.

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Management In ten volume, is a compilation of technical terms add expressions used in management literature and communications.

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Management In ten volume, is a compilation of technical terms add expressions used in management literature and communications.