POSITIVE DEBATE

Question 1

EDUCATION (FOR)

Answer 1

• seligman suggests a positive psychology curriculum should be used
• promotes skills and strengths that are valued
• produces improvements in behaviour and well-being
• facilitates students engagement in learning and achievement
• prp showed support students on this programme showed teduction of depression symptoms compared to control (Gilliam et al) after 24 months 22% showed symptoms compared to 44%
• seligman et al also found PPC more cooperative and better social skills

Question 2

WORK (FOR)

Answer 2

• flow theory suggests our experiences will be most positive when challenges and skills are high
• person stretching capabilities as well as enjoying the moment and learning new skills increasing self-esteem
• Csikszentmihalyi and LeFerve experience glow situations more at work than leisure showing work environments offer more opportunity for + experiences

Question 3

LEISURE AND LIFESTYLE ADVICE (FOR)

Answer 3

• Ciskszentmihalyi and LeFerve found increase in flow opuryunites for those more active in their leisure time.
• Action for happiness a website online claim they are a movement for positive social change
• site offers support for depression but also 10 keys for living a happier life

Question 4

HEALTH (FOR)

Answer 4

• kubzansky and Thruston after following 6,000 males and females those with higher levels of emotional vitality had reduced risk of coronary heart disease

Question 5

EDUCATION (AGAINST)

Answer 5

• lack of empirical evidence
• Spence and Shortt argue that research that does exists is only short term and small scale
• needs more research before being implemented in schools also supported by seligman
• adding + into curriculum will mean other subjects are dropped means other more esstential subjects are subtracted
• adding + means that students leave school with less academic achievements

Question 6

WORK (AGAINST)

Answer 6

• • psych supports findings of choose a job you love and u will never have to work again this is not a new find
• therefore have to consider if it has really offered anything
• work may make u happy however income does not affect ur happiness Diener found a modest correlation of +.12
• other countries don’t have the luxury

Question 7

LEISURE ABD LIFESTYLE (AGAINST)

Answer 7

• not everyone has the time or financial means

- difficult to asses action for happiness impact as not all variables controlled

Question 8

HEALTH (AGAINST)

Answer 8

Difficult to prove cause and effect between health and happiness

• which one affects which
• there are no clear cause and effect conclusions