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Self-Acceptance in Mid to Late Life: Lingering Effects of Childhood Maltreatment and Positive Contributions of Warm and Supportive Relationships
Attachment theory posits that childhood maltreatment negatively impacts beliefs about the self and those beliefs are carried forward into adulthood....
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Assessing Temperament Risk Factors in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: Development and Validation of the Integrative Late Childhood Temperament Inventory
Childhood temperament has a well-documented influence on later life outcomes, notably behavior problems, quality of interpersonal relationships, and...
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Emotion Dynamics among Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults: The Role of Maternal Privacy Invasion Perceptions
Prior research suggests that youth experience immediate emotional distress following privacy invasion, but it is unclear whether and how persistent...
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Neurodiversity in Practice: a Conceptual Model of Autistic Strengths and Potential Mechanisms of Change to Support Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing in Autistic Children and Adolescents
ObjectivesNeurodiversity affirming frameworks are a paradigm shift from a deficit-focused approach to autism to recognizing autism as a heterogeneous...
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Positive Psychology and Judaism
Many core tenets of positive psychology and the psychology of religion/spirituality (R/S) are essential concepts within the rich literature and...
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The Positive Action Program
The Positive Action (PA) program was developed and revised by Carol Gerber Allred from 1977 to the present using continuous process monitoring and...
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Emergency and costs effect pro-environmental behavior: an event-related potential (ERP) study
Pro-environmental behavior requires individuals to pay the cost to improve or protect the environment. The arousal: cost-reward model holds that...
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Self-Compassion and Positive Aging
Older adulthood presents newfound joys and freedom, as well as simultaneous changes to health, social roles, and identity. Some people can embrace...
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Interpersonal Trauma Effects on Adolescent Depression: The Moderating Role of Neurophysiological Responses to Positive Interpersonal Images
Trauma exposure is associated with a heightened risk for depression and such risk is thought to vary based on the type of traumatic events (e.g.,...
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Developmental differences in processing the valence and magnitude of incentive cues: Mid-adolescents are more sensitive to potential gains than early- or late-adolescents
Recent research has focused on the interaction between motivation and cognitive control and shown that both are important for goal-directed behavior....
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Late Twentieth Century: Meta-Linguistics
During the late twentieth century, the focus of bilingualism research shifted away from intelligence and moved towards meta-linguistics. Based on...
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Affective Development from Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence: Trajectories of Mean-Level Change in Negative and Positive Affect
Adolescence has long been purported to be a period of emotional upheaval, yet relatively little is known regarding normative patterns of change in...
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Individual and Community level Developmental Adversities: Associations with Marijuana and Alcohol Use in Late-Adolescents and Young Adults
Exposure to community and individual level stressors during adolescence has been reported to be associated with increased substance use. However, it...
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Peer Bullying Victimization Trajectories for Sexually and Gender Diverse Youth from Early Childhood to Late Adolescence
Sexually and gender diverse (SGD) youth experience more peer bullying victimization than heterosexual, cisgender youth during adolescence, yet the...
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Positive Psychology in South Korea and Japan: Current State of Affairs and Future Potential
In this chapter, the status and promise of positive psychology in South Korea and Japan are reviewed. Specifically, for each country, the...
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“Every Day has Enough of Its Own Torment”—A Narrative Study of Life’s Greatest Challenge Among Men in Late Adulthood
The purpose of this study was to investigate stories of life’s greatest challenge among men in late adulthood from a narrative and developmental...
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Mean-level change of perfectionism in late childhood: a 2-year longitudinal investigation
We examined patterns of mean-level change in striving for perfection, self-critical perfectionism, and socially prescribed perfectionism over two...
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Perspectives on Positive Psychology from Christianity
Christianity is the most widely practiced global religion. Christian philosophy and practices have recently gathered the interest of psychology...
