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  • The PROSPER School Pathways for Student Wellbeing

    Policy and Practices

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This brief defines student wellbeing and outlines seven evidence-informed pathways that schools can take to promote student wellbeing and develop their school as an enabling institution. The acronym PROSPER is applied as an organizer for both the psychological elements of wellbeing and for these Positive Education pathways. These pathways focus on encouraging Positivity, building Relationships, ... Read more

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  • Black Male Violence in Perspective

    Toward Afrocentric Intervention

    Black Male Violence in Perspective: Towards Afrocentric Intervention represents a synthesis of lived experience, authoritative research, and Afro-centric perspective on one of the most controversial topics of our day. It examines violence by and among Black men, as it is inextricably tied to its context; the history of violence in America including colonialism, expansionism, and concepts of ... Read more

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    A Critical Component of Optimal Youth Development

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume integrates and makes sense of the growing body of theoretical and empirical research conducted on purpose across the lifespan. It opens with a comprehensive yet detailed discussion of the definitions of purpose most commonly used in studies on the topic. In addition to defining the construct, the author also discusses its philosophical roots and distinguishes it from related concepts, ... Read more

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  • The Experience of Meaning in Life

    Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This edited volume takes an in depth exploration into the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences. Each chapter features leading scholars who describes current empirical findings in a thorough and accessible manner, highlighting important issues and controversies facing the scientific study of meaning in life. The book covers an exhaustive range of topics including ... Read more

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  • Measures of Positive Psychology

    Development and Validation

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The book contributes to the vast field of research in psychometrics as well as to the growing field of positive psychology. It analyses the development and validation of several constructs of positive psychology like resilience, flow, mindfulness, spirituality, and intrapersonal and interpersonal strengths. The chapters discuss the test construction process and develop scales for constructs that ... Read more

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  • Ancient Views on the Quality of Life

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient texts from about 600 BCE to 300 BCE, the book explores the earliest ideas in recorded western philosophical and ... Read more

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  • Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context

    Perspectives on the Psychology of Agency, Freedom, and Well-Being

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy ... Read more

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  • Studies In Expressive Movement

    Investigations of personality may be focused upon any one of three different levels of phenomena. The first is the level of traits, interests, attitudes, or sentiments considered as composing an "inner" personality; the second is the level of behaviour and expression; the third is the level of impression, the perception and interpretation of behaviour by another. Since a discovery on one of these ... Read more

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  • The Complexity of Workplace Humour

    Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side of Humour

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that enliven modern workplaces. It has long been accepted that humour and tragedy can occupy the same space and that is eloquently demonstrated in this book. Using ethnographic research techniques, a selection of stories, ruminations, cartoons, and narratives of events is combined with theoretical ... Read more

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  • Positivism in Psychology

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    Series series Recent Research in Psychology
    Positivism needs further scrutiny. In recent years, there has been little consensus about the nature of positivism or about the precise forms its influence has taken on psychological theory. One symptom of this lack of clarity has been that ostensibly anti-positivist psychological theorizing is frequently found reproducing one or more distinctively positivist assumptions. The contributors to this ... Read more

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  • The Power of Mindfulness

    Mindfulness Meditation Training in Sport (MMTS)

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers both sport psychology practitioners and sport athletes a clear understanding of mindfulness to help athletes optimize sport performance. It provides a clear insight how sport athletes can learn to increase their ability to concentrate, be fully present during high pressure competition and how to effectively respond to distracting thoughts and emotions (e.g. performance anxiety; ... Read more

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  • Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (P.A.T.H.S.)

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled “P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes.This pioneer project was conducted in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2012 with more than 210,000 participants. Its goal was to help students meet various ... Read more

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