Subjective Wellbeing: Why Is It Important and How Can We Measure It?

Do you believe wellbeing means the same thing to everyone? If we all enjoy and value different things, how is it possible to understand happiness? [...]

What Is Emotional Health? (& 11 Emotional Wellness Activities)

The subjective, human experience of emotions comprises a wide, colorful continuum of feelings. The journey begins the day we are born and continues until the [...]

13 Emotional Intelligence Activities & Exercises

If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we’ve devoted considerable attention to emotional intelligence. This isn’t an accident—our focus on the subject reflects [...]

Somatic experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Therapy: 10 Best Exercises & Examples

While events like natural disasters, wars, or accidents can be considered traumatic by most people, other events may be traumatic due to people’s subjective experience. [...]

The Psychology, Theory, and Science of Happiness (+ 16 Best Articles)

I will admit that when I learned that I was to write an article on the psychology, theory, and science of happiness, I thought “easy!”. [...]

Learned Helplessness

Learned Helplessness: Seligman’s Theory of Depression (+ Cure)

The concept of learned helplessness is a cornerstone of many important theories and ideas in psychology, and it’s the basis for several foundational concepts in [...]

What is Applied Positive Psychology?

There is nothing more practical than a good theory. And this was never more true than in the case of positive psychology and its many [...]

On the Meaning of Meaning: What Are We Really Looking For?

If you have ever wondered about meaning, you are not alone in that quest for answers. The question of meaning is not really one question [...]

self-efficacy-scale

Measuring Self-Efficacy with Scales and Questionnaires

Self-efficacy is all about your belief in your own abilities as it pertains to dealing with various situations. Self-efficacy can play a big role in [...]

Social wellbeing

What Is Social Wellbeing? 12 Activities for Positive Relationships

We know humans are social beings. Yet, when thinking about wellbeing, we think more about our individual wellbeing, in terms of how good we feel, [...]