Positively Engaging
Abstract
<p>Since its founding about a decade ago by past American Psychological Association President Martin E. P. Seligman, positive psychology has grown by leaps and bounds. Now there is the Journal of Positive Psychology , the Positive Psychology Summit, half a dozen positive psychology textbooks suitable for classroom use, several graduate programs leading to advanced degrees in positive psychology, and a veritable plethora of relevant publications. No longer can I write that there “is a relative paucity of research” on such positive psychology topics as happiness, hope, optimism, or creativity.</p> <p>Indeed, positive psychology has become so strong that it has become a buzzword in some related fields, such as business. But how does a related field such as business understand research from positive psychology? And how may the data and conclusions of psychologists’ research best be put into practice in the business world? Such are the questions posed by the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work , P. Alex Linley, Susan Harrington, and Nicola Garcea at the University of Leicester, England.</p> <p>In their handbook, the editors have carefully selected 26 chapters by about 50 authors on a wide range of topics relating to the positive