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  1. While music-making interventions are increasingly recognised as enhancing mental health, little is known of why music may engender such benefit. The objective of this article is to elucidate the features of a ...

    Authors: Rosie Perkins, Sara Ascenso, Louise Atkins, Daisy Fancourt and Aaron Williamon
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2016 6:11
  2. Previous research has shown that gratitude positively influences psychological wellbeing and physical health. Grateful people are reported to feel more optimistic and happy, to better mitigate aversive experie...

    Authors: Asma Ghandeharioun, Asaph Azaria, Sara Taylor and Rosalind W. Picard
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2016 6:9
  3. With the increasing quality of smartphone cameras, taking photos has become ubiquitous. This paper investigates how smartphone photography can be leveraged to help individuals increase their positive affect.

    Authors: Yu Chen, Gloria Mark and Sanna Ali
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2016 6:8
  4. Pride is one of the most meaningful experiences in daily life. Many psychological studies emphasize self-oriented and event-based achievements as the main sources of pride, whereas work from organizational man...

    Authors: Yichen Lu and Virpi Roto
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2016 6:6
  5. Well-being program evaluations mostly focus on identifying effective outcomes rather than measuring the actual extent to which program participants may apply learned skills in subsequent everyday lives. This s...

    Authors: TanChyuan Chin, Nikki S. Rickard and Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2016 6:1
  6. This practice paper explores the intersection of school studio-music pedagogy and positive psychology in order to enhance students’ learning and engagement. The paper has a practitioner focus and puts forward ...

    Authors: Tim Patston and Lea Waters
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:10
  7. School climate has often been described as the “quality and character of school life”, including both social and physical aspects of the school, that can positively promote behaviour, school achievement, and t...

    Authors: Leanne Lester and Donna Cross
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:9
  8. We used a computational method to quantitatively investigate the relationship between personality and written narratives of life events. Agentic (i.e., self-directedness), communal (i.e., cooperativeness), and...

    Authors: Danilo Garcia, Henrik Anckarsäter, Oscar N. E. Kjell, Trevor Archer, Patricia Rosenberg, C. Robert Cloninger and Sverker Sikström
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:8
  9. Studies have found that job crafting and employee well-being are correlated. Less is known, however, about the contextual variables that support or thwart job crafting within an organization. The present study...

    Authors: Gavin R. Slemp, Margaret L. Kern and Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:7
  10. Developing employee wellbeing has recently been recognized as an important way to improve organizational performance. Sloan’s (1987) dual-intervention approach suggests that employee wellbeing can be developed...

    Authors: Paige Williams, Margaret L Kern and Lea Waters
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:5
  11. The Dualistic Model of Passion posits the existence of two types of passion, namely harmonious and obsessive passion. These two types of passion have been assessed through the Passion Scale. This scale has bee...

    Authors: Yaxi Zhao, Ariane St-Louis and Robert J Vallerand
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:3
  12. Positive psychology is the study of the conditions and processes that contribute to optimal flourishing in people, groups and organisations. This paper outlines the PROSPER framework, an organising tool for th...

    Authors: Toni Noble and Helen McGrath
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:2
  13. Growing evidence is linking gratitude with well-being, yet insufficient scholarly attention has been given to how it is defined, understood and measured. To address this issue, gratitude and gratefulness can b...

    Authors: Reuben D Rusk, Dianne A Vella-Brodrick and Lea Waters
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2015 5:1
  14. It is known that persons with dementia (PWD) suffer a variety of difficulties, with increased agitation as well as lowered mood, focus and lucidity being amongst their greatest challenges. Caregivers are also ...

    Authors: Jane W Davidson and Renita A Almeida
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:24
  15. In this article we consider how the question of what music can or cannot do is linked to the kind of light cast upon musical engagement and its outcomes.

    Authors: Tia DeNora and Gary Ansdell
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:23
  16. Musical behavior has been shown to reflect broader individual differences. However, despite the prevalence of music in the lives of young people little is known about the mechanisms through which adolescents’ ...

    Authors: Suvi Saarikallio, Jonna Vuoskoski and Geoff Luck
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:21
  17. There is an expanding field of research into how making or listening to music can improve wellbeing. As a spontaneous, social, creative nonverbal process unfolding in real time, musical improvisation between i...

    Authors: Raymond AR MacDonald and Graeme B Wilson
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:20
  18. Students with a strong sense of competence in musical skills and control over their physical and psychological well-being enhance their capacity to exceed their average level of performance and achieve an opti...

    Authors: Margaret S Osborne, Don J Greene and Don T Immel
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:18
  19. Physician well-being has rapidly become an important area of interest given that reduced well-being can have a negative effect on patient outcomes. The majority of studies in this area have focused on impairme...

    Authors: Christopher R Simon and Natalie Durand-Bush
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:19
  20. Results of a recently published paper from members of the Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways Project team indicated that a seven-domain, intercorrelated-factor model of economic confidence, agency/participation, s...

    Authors: Stanley O Gaines
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:16
  21. Oral narrative strategies have rarely been applied in the positive psychology domain. Traditional folk and fairy tales are concerned with several concepts that are now scientifically investigated by research o...

    Authors: Chiara Ruini, Licia Masoni, Fedra Ottolini and Silvia Ferrari
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being 2014 4:13
  22. Positive psychology interventions have been shown to increase happiness and well-being, and researchers are beginning to speculate on the mechanisms through which these interventions may be effective. People a...

    Authors: Peter Alex Linley, Helen Dovey, Eveline de Bruin, Catherine Transler, Joy Wilkinson, John Maltby and Robert Hurling
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2013 3:6
  23. An epidemiological study in the USA recently reported that variations in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5HTTLPR) can influence subjective well-being or happiness; specifically, indiv...

    Authors: Masahiro Matsunaga, Tokiko Isowa, Kaori Yamakawa and Hideki Ohira
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2013 3:5
  24. Physical activity has been linked to well-being among women. One psychological perspective that can offer insights regarding this relationship is the Dualistic Model of Passion. The model posits that individua...

    Authors: Eva Guérin, Michelle S Fortier and Tamara Williams
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2013 3:4
  25. It has been argued that the quality of daily interactions within organisations effects the wellbeing of both individuals and the broader organisation. Coaching for leadership development is one intervention of...

    Authors: Sean O’Connor and Michael Cavanagh
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2013 3:2
  26. Positive associations have been found between quality of life, emotion regulation strategies, and heart rate variability (HRV) in people without intellectual disabilities. However, emotion regulation and HRV h...

    Authors: Adrian Meule, Katharina Fath, Ruben GL Real, Stefan Sütterlin, Claus Vögele and Andrea Kübler
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2013 3:1
  27. As the proportion of elderly people within a population increases there is an accompanying increase in the role of informal caregivers. Many studies on caregivers report negative health outcomes but very few h...

    Authors: Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Sam-ang Seubsman and Adrian C Sleigh
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2012 2:4
  28. The objectives of the study were to explore a self-report measure for psychological well-being and to investigate the relationship between psychological well-being and psychological distress.

    Authors: Helen R Winefield, Tiffany K Gill, Anne W Taylor and Rhiannon M Pilkington
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2012 2:3
  29. This study describes the development and validation of an individual-level well-being assessment and scoring method (IWBS) adapted from the population-based Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index across six domain...

    Authors: Kerry E Evers, James O Prochaska, Patricia H Castle, Janet L Johnson, Janice M Prochaska, Patricia L Harrison, Elizabeth Y Rula, Carter Coberley and James E Pope
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2012 2:2
  30. Using the Dualistic Model of Passion (DMP), the purpose of the present paper is to show the role of passion for activities in sustainable psychological well-being. Passion is defined as a strong inclination to...

    Authors: Robert J Vallerand
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2012 2:1
  31. How is happiness generated via brain function in lucky individuals who have the good fortune to be happy? Conceptually, well-being or happiness has long been viewed as requiring at least two crucial ingredient...

    Authors: Kent C Berridge and Morten L Kringelbach
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2011 1:3
  32. Authors: Dianne Vella-Brodrick and Nikki Rickard
    Citation: Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice 2011 1:1