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🎯 Main Points

Enhancing the Good

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

🔑 Key Definitions

PPIs: Positive Psychology Interventions - intentional activities to cultivate positive outcomes 🌱
PERMA: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment (Seligman) 5️⃣

👤 Important Figures

  • Sin & Lyubomirsky (2009) - Meta-analysis of 51 PPI studies 📊
  • Martin Seligman - PERMA model 🌟

🛠️ Evidence-Based Interventions

  • Three Good Things - Write 3 positive events daily 3️⃣
  • Gratitude Letter - Write & deliver thanks 💌
  • Strengths Use - Apply strengths in new ways 💪
  • Acts of Kindness - 5 acts in one day 5️⃣🤲
  • Best Possible Self - Write about ideal future 🔮

📊 Meta-Analysis Findings (Sin & Lyubomirsky)

  • PPIs enhance well-being (r = .29) 📈
  • PPIs reduce depression (r = .31) 📉
  • Effects greater for depressed 🏥
  • Self-selected = larger benefits 🙋
  • Longer interventions = stronger effects ⏳

💡 Exam Tips

  • Know PERMA: P-E-R-M-A (5 pillars) 5️⃣
  • Sin & Lyubomirsky 2009 = key meta-analysis 📊
  • Person-activity FIT matters 👤🔄