1. NISHMA.V.M,MSc.Apllied Psychology Pondicherry university

2. WHAT ARE POSITIVE EMOTIONS?

3. Positive affect  Cheerfulness, joy, contentment, and happiness Negative affect  Anger, fear, sadness, guilt, contempt, and disgust

4. Broaden-and –Build Model  Provides an overview of how positive emotions helps to build physical,psychological, and social resources that promote well-being.

5. Two distinctions 1) mood and emotion:  mood is a more genaral concept than emotion because it refers to our overall feelings  In contrast emotions are more temporary states that are tied to personally meaningful evnts The theory is focused on positive emotions like joy, love, interest, pride and contentment.  Describes the effect of positive emotions as oposit to the effect of negative emotions

6. 2)Sensory pleasures and positive emotions  positive emotions should not be confuced with simple sensory pleasures.

7. FOUR OUTCOMES OF OSITIVE EMOTIONS- 1) Positive emotions broaden our thought-action repertoires: Negative emotions- narrow our thoughts Positive emotions - widen our thoughts 2) Positive emotions undo negative emotions: it seem to produce oposit effects. 3) Positive emotions enhance resilience: It will offset the effect of negative emotions. 4)Positive emotions build enduring resources and improve well-being:

8. Positive Emotions and Health Resources  Both positive and negative emotions have the potentials to set a verity of physical, psychological, and social changes that can either compromise or enhance our health.

9. Physical Resource:  Four resources which effect our health are Brain Nervous system as a whole The endocrine system Immune system

10. Psychological Resource:  Positive emotions and coping with stress: need of strength and effectiveness of our intellectual, behavioural and emotional efforts problem-focused coping: Emotion-focused coping Proactive coping

11. Social Resource:  People who engaged in a close network and supportive relationship enjoy better health and more personal happiness than those who lack such networks.  Less sick and Live longer  Lack of social ties, loss of significant relationship  Loneliness, depression, personal distress & unhappiness

12. LIMITATIONS OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS  Providing no guarantee for long and happy life  Traumatic experiences like death and spouse can overwhelm our coping resources

13. Positive Emotions and Well-Being  Positve emotions contribute to more flexible, creative and resilient responses in the face of challenge  Happy people are more tolerant and less prejudicial, more compassionate, more focused on others, more helpful and more enjoyable with others

14. Positive Emotions and success  Happy people are greatly found to enjoy greater success in marriage life, friendship, income, workand mental and physical health.

15. Positive Emotions and flourishing  It is the state of optimal human functioning.  It is the complete mental health.

16. Cultivating positive emotions  mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. Act happy Seek work and leisure that engages your skills Take control of your time Daily exercise Sleep well Establish close relationship Focus beyond the self Spiritual activity

17. Reading a book Going for a party Fixing a good meal with family Painting Photography Listening to music…

18. REFERENCE  R.S.Baumgardner, K.M.Crothers (2009). Positive psychology,newdelhi, Dorling kindersely pvt.ltd,India.