Positive Psychology and Humanistic Psychology: Evil Twins, Sibling Rivals, Distant Cousins, or Something Else?

Rich, Grant J.

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“…8-9). However, humanistic psychology's rejection of the PN worldview and its methods led to marginalization within professional psychology, so that its ideas are rarely referenced today even within PP (Rich, 2018). Founders of PP like Martin Seligman have sometimes claimed that the PP's movement beyond focus on pathology is a new undertaking, although this claim has been disputed (Held, 2005), and Seligman appears to have stepped back from this claim at times.…”

Section: Historical Reactions and Resistance To Pnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

Davis¹,

Worthington²,

Schnitker³

2022

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This handbook aims to bridge the gap between the fields of positive psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality. It is the authoritative guide to the intersections among religion, spirituality, and positive psychology and includes the following sections: (1) historical and theoretical considerations, (2) methodological considerations, (3) cultural considerations, (4) developmental considerations, (5) empirical research on happiness and well-being in relation to religion and spirituality, (6) empirical research on character strengths and virtues in relation to religion and spirituality, (7) clinical and applied considerations, and (8) field unification and advancement. Leading positive psychologists and psychologists of religion/spirituality have coauthored the chapters, drawing on expertise from their respective fields. The handbook is useful for social and clinical scientists, practitioners in helping professions, practitioners in religious and spiritual fields, and students of psychology and religion/spirituality.

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Section: Historical Reactions and Resistance To Pnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

Davis¹,

Worthington²,

Schnitker³

2022

Preprint

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“…Moreover, as areas of positive psychology continue to develop a firmer integration with existential philosophy e.g., existential positive psychology (Wong, 2011b), a movement toward “a genuine rapprochement between humanistic and positive psychology” (Robbins, 2008, p. 107) becomes more likely. Furthermore, in closing the divide, these two closely related, but commonly separate, disciplines may be brought closer together through methodological and epistemological pluralism (Franco, Friedman, & Arons, 2008; Friedman, 2008) and meaningful and effective collaboration (Rich, 2017).…”

Section: Humanistic Psychology and Positive Psychology: Routes And Co...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Unconditional positive self-regard: The role of perceived parental conditional regard.

Proctor

Tweed

Morris

2021

The Humanistic Psychologist

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This study investigated Rogerian unconditional positive self-regard (UPSR) among young adults. Based on the findings of extant research in support of the Rogerian metatheoretcial model, variables were selected based on the fully functioning person to represent characteristics predictive of UPSR. Using hierarchical regression, UPSR was assessed with young adults aged 16 to 19 years (x ϭ 16.87). Participants completed emotional self-assessments (Block 1: depression, anxiety, and self-esteem), humanistic/positive psychology construct assessments (Block 2: authenticity, life satisfaction, aspirations), and a measure of perceived parental conditional regard (Block 3: domain-specific perceptions of parental conditional regard [PPCR]). Analyses revealed that each block of variables significantly accounted for the variance in UPSR. All scores (except PPCR-Sport) had significant zero-order correlations with UPSR, however when considered together this was no longer the case due to the significant intercorrelations of the predictor variables. Overall, the following significant predictors of unconditional positive self-regard among young adults emerged: self-esteem, authentic living, accepting external influence, life satisfaction, importance of intrinsic motivations, and perceived parental conditional regard on academic success. Implications are explored.

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“… Grant Rich (2017) argues that a reconciliation between humanistic and positive psychology is possible, and that a key component of this will be an understanding by those who identify with each subfield of each other’s research methods. In particular, he argues that positive psychology, now perhaps stepping back from the scientistic brink in the wake of the critical positivity ratio debacle, needs to make more use of qualitative methods.…”

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Implications of Debunking the “Critical Positivity Ratio” for Humanistic Psychology: Introduction to Special Issue

Friedman

Brown

2018

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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An extraordinary claim was made by one of the leading researchers within positive psychology, namely, there is a universal–invariant ratio between positive to negative emotions that serves as a unique tipping point between flourishing and languishing in individuals, marriages, organizations, and other human systems across all cultures and times. Known as the “critical positivity ratio,” this finding was supposedly derived from the famous Lorenz equation in physics by using the mathematics of nonlinear dynamic systems, and was defined precisely as “2.9013.” This exact number was widely touted as a great discovery by many leaders of positive psychology, had tremendous impact in various applied areas of psychology, and, more broadly, and was extensively cited in both the scientific literature and in the global popular media. However, this finding has been demonstrated to be bogus. Since its advent as a relatively new subdiscipline, positive psychology has claimed superiority to its precursor, the subdiscipline of humanistic psychology, in terms of supposedly both using more rigorous science and avoiding popularizing nonsense. The debunking of the critical positivity ratio demonstrates that positive psychology did not live up to these claims, and this has important implications, which are discussed in terms of “romantic scientism” and “voodoo science.” In addition, articles in the special issue on the “Implications of Debunking the ‘Critical Positivity Ratio’ for Humanistic Psychology” are introduced, as they also delve into these concerns.

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Positive Psychology and Humanistic Psychology: Evil Twins, Sibling Rivals, Distant Cousins, or Something Else?

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

Unconditional positive self-regard: The role of perceived parental conditional regard.

Implications of Debunking the “Critical Positivity Ratio” for Humanistic Psychology: Introduction to Special Issue

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