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Positive Psychology and Quality of Life |
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PP: 69-80 |
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doi:10.18576/ijye/040202
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Meriem Ben Haddou,
Mohamed Lakmeche,
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Abstract |
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| Psychology is no longer the same as before, when people talk among themselves about it and where the only link to this science was with the world and the psychiatrist "Freud". It is no longer a science for diagnosing mental illness only where psychologists focus in studying the shortcomings of human performance and ignores the aspects of positive growth in performance. Although the problems of incompatibility were among the most common topics in psychological studies compared to the topics of positive development, the search for positive aspects of psychological and behavioural development has become more extensive. This paved the way for the spread of positive psychology that started with the American scientist Martin Seligman (1998). Since then a rapid growth in area and level of studies, research and application of positive psychology and the concept of quality of life and which utilized the earlier literature of since the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century. Actually, this new psychology school has focused with great interest in the natural sciences, humans and social life and influenced various psychological disciplines, theoretical and applied.
In this paper we explore how psychology was the first to understand and determine the variables affecting the quality of human life, primarily because the quality of life in the end is an expression of cognitive perception. It is now a discipline for understanding and improving the quality of the self and realizing the depth of the life for the human-beings which they are not aware about. Therefore, the focus is to explore the relationship between positive psychology and quality of life and to clarify this relationship according to the modern trends in psychology. The author concludes with confirmation of how the quality of life as we know it today is part of positive psychology.
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