PSYC 335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Menninger Foundation, Likert Scale, Antithesis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 335
• Professor: Dean A Tripp

Document Summary

Strengths: the search institutes 40 developmental assets measured by the search institute profiles of. Justice: civic strengths: externally and internally valid, and reliable, uses a likert scale. Emotional well-being: well-being with perception of affirmed happiness and satisfaction with life, along with a balance of positive and negative affect, threefold structure consists of life satisfaction, positive affect, and absence of negative affect. Ryff"s model of positive functioning: favourable outcomes can be integrated into a model of psychological well-being. Social acceptance: have positive attitudes toward people and accept ppl despite their behaviour. Personal growth: open to new experience, increasingly knowledgeable. Social actualization: care about and believe society is evolving positively. Negative affect: absence of symptoms that suggest life is undesirable. Social contribution: feel you give something valuable to society. Life satisfaction: sense of peace from small discrepancies between wants and needs with accomplishments. Environmental mastery: feel competent and able to manage a complex enviro: choose or create personally suitable community.