Are Europeans flourishing? Felicia Huppert and Timothy So analyzed data from 43,000 adult Europeans comprising 22 nations in the European Social Survey (Round 3 - 2006/7) to determine the prevalence of flourishing, defined as people meeting a criterion similar to the flourishment PERMA-V goal here at zZense.com. Regionally, they found
How to Live a Full Life
A 2015 book edited by Shannon Polly, MAPP & Kathyrn Britton, MAPP
A fundamnetal tenet of zZense and Positive Psychology is that our character skills, or strengths, are key to flourishing in life. This book devotes one section to each of 24 character skills. Each section describes that strength and suggests five ways to build it. Each also presents a brief writing to be read aloud. This gives the reader a chance to "try on" that skill using words that exmplify it, reading "as if" that skill were one of his strengths.
Before and during a "big test", we often feel anxious. Sometimes this anxiety even becomes debilitating -- we "blank out" or "have a mind cramp" severely hurting our test performance. Research by Mendes etal may hold clues about turning the tide on anxiety and improving our test performance.
A definitive foundation of Flourishment, {jumi [affiliate] [CSV-text]} (2004) by Christopher Peterson PhD and Martin Seligman PhD, describes the key elements of human goodness.
The VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) was well-crafted and has emerged as the primary instrument for gauging individual character skills (a.k.a. strengths in VIA parlance) and virtues. Over two million people have completed the VIA-IS self-assessment of their character skills using a 240-question on-line survey, resulting in a large data base. Are the 24 VIA-IS character skills the definitive skills, and are they correctly grouped into the 6 virtues?