PSY 323

Paper Code: 
Positive Psychology I
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO101: Understanding the linkages of self between eastern and western school of thoughts.

CO102: Appreciating and understanding the meaning and conceptual approaches to happiness and well-being.

CO103: Being able to locate the diversity in the experiences of happiness within an individual’s life span and across different domains.

CO104: Learning the various pathways through which positive emotions and positive traits contribute to happiness and well-being.

CO105: Being able to identify the key virtues and character strengths which facilitate happiness and well-being.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Positive psychology

Western Perspective: Why Negative Focus, Goals and assumption, Waves of Positive Psychology, Relation with developmental psychology, Health psychology and Clinical psychology. Eastern Perspective: Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Taoism. 

12.00
Unit II: 
Positive Emotional States and Processes

Defining Emotional Terms: Affect, Emotions, Happiness; SWB: living a Pleasurable Life; Subjective Well Being: History, Theoretical Approaches and Demographics; PERMA model of well-being. 

12.00
Unit III: 
Positive Cognitive States and Processes

Optimism: Expectancy-Value Models of Motivation, Relation with subjective well-being, pessimism and coping; Hope: Introduction to hope theory, looking through positive psychology lens; Mindfulness; Flow.

12.00
Unit IV: 
Strengths and Positive Outcomes

Strength:  Concept, Classification and Measures-Gallup’s Clifton Strengths finder, VIA Classification, 40 Developmental assets, Identifying Personal Strengths; Wisdom as a Strength: Optimal development and study of wisdom as scientific discourse about good life, Psychological Theories of Wisdom, Berlin Wisdom Project, linkages with psychological theories of Motivation and Values

12.00
Unit V: 
Classification of Values

Relationship connection: History, Minding Model-Knowing and Being Known, Attribution, Acceptance & Respect, Reciprocity in Minding, Continuity and Minding; Compassion: Basic Requirement and Classification, Absence and Evidence of compassion, Nature of suffering and Knowing others; Forgiveness: meaning and measures of forgiveness; Gratitude: Emotional Response of life and Basic Virtue of Insight

Essential Readings: 

·       Baumgardiner, S. R. & Crothers M. K. (2010). Positive psychology. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

·       Carr, A. (2004). Positive Psychology: The science of happiness and human strength. UK: Routledge.

·       Peterson, C. (2006). A Primer in Positive Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

·       Snyder, C. R., & Lopez, S. J. (2002). Handbook of Positive Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

References: 

·       Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise: Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment. New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster.

·       Snyder, C. R., & Lopez, S. J. (2007). Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

·       Psychological Assessment. Access from                  https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/pas/index?_ga=2.174987169.223856356.1648803724-1857417954.1648803724

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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