Youth Violence and Positive Psychology: Research Potential Through Integration

Positive psychologists can study the relation between some of the discipline's core dimensions and aversive outcomes, including youth violence. Dimensions such as gratitude, forgiveness, sense of meaning, altruism (or at least apparent altruism), prudence, and humility have received attention w...

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Veröffentlicht in:Canadian psychology = Psychologie canadienne 2011-05, Vol.52 (2), p.111-121
Hauptverfasser: Tweed, Roger G, Bhatt, Gira, Dooley, Stephen, Spindler, Andrea, Douglas, Kevin S, Viljoen, Jodi L
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Positive psychologists can study the relation between some of the discipline's core dimensions and aversive outcomes, including youth violence. Dimensions such as gratitude, forgiveness, sense of meaning, altruism (or at least apparent altruism), prudence, and humility have received attention within positive psychology, and evidence is reviewed suggesting that these may also deserve empirical attention in terms of their relation to youth violence and even their potential to reduce youth violence. La psychologie positive peut étudier la relation entre certains attributs de la discipline et les résultats aversifs, dont la violence juvénile. Cette branche s'est attardée à divers attributs, tels que la gratitude, l'indulgence, le sens de l'existence, l'altruisme (ou, tout au moins, l'apparence d'altruisme), la prudence et l'humilité. Un examen de certains faits suggère que ces éléments mériteraient d'être étudiés empiriquement en regard de leur relation avec la violence juvénile et leur potentiel de la réduire.
ISSN:0708-5591
1878-7304
DOI:10.1037/a0020695