Positive psychology is a revolution in the field of psychology, a new milestone in the history of human social development, and a new science that studies what traditional psychology studies from a positive perspective.
The formation of positive psychology as a research field was first put forward in 1997, marked by the paper Introduction to Positive Psychology published by Seligman and Csikzentmihalyi (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyilai) in June 2000.
It adopts scientific principles and methods to study happiness and advocates the positive orientation of psychology, so as to study the positive psychological quality of human beings and pay attention to their health, happiness and harmonious development.
Research methods of positive psychology;
In terms of research methods, positive psychology absorbs most of the research methods and means of traditional mainstream psychology (such as scale, questionnaire, interview and experiment), and organically combines these research methods and means with humanistic phenomenology and empirical analysis.
It even wants to imitate DSM of traditional mainstream psychology and establish its own DSSWB (diagnostic and statistical standard of happiness), which makes positive psychology show psychologists a familiar and kind face from the beginning.