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