Abstract Background: The 5-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5) is
among the most widely used questionnaires assessing subjective psychological well-being …

Scientific research highlights the central role of specific psychological processes, in
particular those related to the self, in various forms of human suffering and flourishing. This …

In the book Flourish (2011), Seligman defined wellbeing in terms of five pillars: Positive
emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment, or PERMA. We …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns about the mental health of the world
population. Protection measures to prevention the disease impacted education and …

Over the past decade, there has appeared a surge of research interest in language learners'
academic engagement and psychological well-being as important factors in improving the …

This chapter provides an overview of two prominent approaches to wellbeing, the hedonic
and the eudaimonic, both with roots traceable to the ancient Greeks. We first examine the …

Research indicates that core dimensions of psychological well-being can be cultivated
through intentional mental training. Despite growing research in this area and an increasing …

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical
psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of …

The COVID-19 outbreak could be considered as an uncontrollable stressful life event.
Lockdown measures have provoked a disruption of daily life with a great impact over older …

Background: Research has consistently reported gender differences in mental health, but
studies on differences in psychological well-being between women and men have not …