PSY336H1 Chapter 3: Positive Psychology Progress.docx
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Manual of mental disorders (dsm: csv describes and classifies strengths and virtues that enable human thriving, general scheme of the csv relies on six overarching virtues that almost every culture across the world endorses: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence, csv describes what is known and what is not known about each of the included strengths, remarkable similarity in the relative endorsement of the 24 character strengths by adults around the world. 3 distinct and better defined routes to happiness (a) positive emotion and pleasure (the pleasant life) (b) engagement (the engaged life) (c) meaning (the meaningful life): the most satisfied people are those who orient their pursuits toward all three, with the greatest weight carried by engagement and meaning, happiness is not an epiphenomenon, happiness is causal and brings many more benefits than just feeling good, happy people are healthier, more successful, and more socially engaged, and the causal direction runs both ways.
