Overview
- Provides a culture-fair perspective on positive psychology research and practice
- Provides a deep understanding of the ways in which context can affect practice, intervention and research results
- Includes topics related to positive communities and citizenship behaviors
Part of the book series: Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology (CAPP, volume 10)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Approach to Positive Psychology in Latin America
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Positive Psychology and Academic Achievement
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Positive Psychology and Childhood
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Keywords
- Academic Achievement of Argentine Students
- Childhood Prosocial Behavior in Schools
- Community and Health in Latin America
- Cultural competences of international students
- Happiness and Well-Being in Latin America
- Positive Communities
- Positive Emotions in Children
- Positive Organizations in Latin america
- Positive Psychology Ibero-American Meetings
- Positive Psychology and Academic Achievement
- Positive Psychology and Childhood
- Positive Psychology in Latin America
- Promotion of Resiliency in Children
- Psychological Well-being
- Studies on Well-being in Latin America
About this book
This volume describes a culture-fair perspective on positive psychology research and practice in Latin America. It provides a deep understanding of the ways in which context can affect practice, intervention and research results. The development of Positive Psychology in areas such as test adaptation and construction, prediction of academic achievement and empowerment of children at risk is presented. Furthermore, topics related to positive communities and citizenship behaviors are included.
The volume is organized into four sections. The first section presents the importance of test adaption and construction in order to assess Positive Psychology constructs, with a special focus on well-being as a core construct. The second section summarizes a group of research studies carefully designed to predict academic achievement applying Positive Psychology constructs. The third section outlines a set of studies intended to develop flow, resilience, social skills and positive emotionsin children at risk. And finally the fourth and last section introduces two points of view focused on communities in order to assess positive dimensions and to promote positive behaviors.
This volume, aimed at researchers and Psychology, Education, Health and the Social Sciences students, is a useful tool for people interested in the development of Positive Psychology in Latin American countries.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Positive Psychology in Latin America
Editors: Alejandro Castro Solano
Series Title: Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9035-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9034-5Published: 01 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0739-6Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9035-2Published: 11 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2210-5417
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Educational Psychology, Quality of Life Research