Positive Psychology: Online Resources

Positive psychology is the study of happiness. Psychology has traditionally focused on dysfunction—people with mental illness or other issues—and how to treat it. Positive psychology, in contrast, is a field that examines how ordinary people can become ha

Online Journals

The Ironies of Positive Psychology by John H. Harvey and Brian G. Pauwels
Published by: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 2003
Toward a Positive Psychology of Academic Motivation by Frank Pajares
Published by: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 2001
Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions
Published by: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 2009
William James, Positive Psychology, and Healthy-Mindedness
Published by: Penn State University Press
Publication date: 2003

Online Databases

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ebrary (the “e” is lower case) is an online digital library of full texts of over 100,000 scholarly e-books. It is available at many academic libraries and provides a set of online database collections that combine scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music (9,000 titles) and government documents. Additionally, ebrary offers a service called “DASH!” for customers to distribute their own PDF content online.
Project MUSE provides online access to 430 full-text journals from 108 publishers in humanities and social science. MUSE pricing meets library needs around the world. Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books. Project MUSE provides access to digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world
Springer Publishing Company was founded in 1950 by Bernhard Springer, the Berlin-born great-grandson of Julius Springer, who founded Springer-Verlag (to this day an entirely independent company). Springer Publishing Company publishes books in the fields of nursing, psychology, gerontology, social work, counseling, public health, rehabilitation, and healthcare administration.

Online Journals

Positive Psychology and Character Strengths
Published by: American School Counselor Association
Publication date: 2008
The Positive Psychology of Emotional Intelligence
Published by: Peter Lang AG
Publication date: 2008
Positive Psychology
Published by: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 2003
The Morality and Politics of Hope
Published by: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2005
Hope, Philosophical psychology, Psychological research, Social psychology