Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Growth psychology

Lecture 11: Growth motivation and positive psychology

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This is the eleventh lecture for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

This lecture:

• considers the psychological motivation for personal growth and self-actualisation

Take-home message:

• Encouraging growth is more productive than trying to cure weakness

Multimedia

• Maslow on peak experiences (YouTube) (4:02 mins): an interview with Maslow about his research on peak experiences.
• The new era of positive psychology (Martin Seligman, TED/YouTube) (23:29 mins): explains the origins, purpose, and promise of positive psychology.
• Viktor Frankl: Search for meaning (YouTube) (4:22 mins): on the importance of meaning in people's lives.

Readings

1. Chapter 15: Growth motivation and positive psychology (Reeve, 2018)

Slides

• Lecture slides
  • Growth psychology (Google Slides, 2021)
• Handouts
  • Download 6 slides to a page:
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See also

• Images

Lectures

• Unconscious motivation (Previous lecture)
• Interventions and review (Next lecture)

Tutorial

• Positive psychology (Tutorial)

Wikipedia

• Abraham Maslow
• Barbara Fredrickson
• Carl Rogers
• Self-actualisation
• Transpersonal psychology

Wikiversity

• Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Book chapter, 2016)
• Eudaimonic well-being (Book chapter, 2011)
• Growth through adversity (Book chapter, 2011)
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs (Book chapter, 2011)
• Mystical experiences and emotion (Book chapter, 2018)
• National and cultural happiness (Book chapter, 2015)
• Peak experiences and emotion (Book chapter, 2019)
• Spiritual motivation (Book chapter, 2010)
• Spiritual and religious motivation (Book chapter, 2011)
• The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Book chapter, 2016)
• Trauma recovery and growth (Book chapter, 2011)

Recording

• Lecture 11 recording (2022)

References

Fredrickson, B. (2001). The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. American Psychologist, 56, 218–226. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.56.3.218

Maslow, A. H. (1954). Motivation and personality. Harper & Brothers.

Maslow, A. H. (1971/1976). Farther reaches of human nature. Penguin.

Seligman, M. E. P., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000). Positive psychology: An introduction. American Psychologist, 55, 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1037//0003-066X.55.1.5

Seligman, M. E. P., Rashid, T., & Parks, A. C. (2006). Positive psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 61(8), 774–788. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.61.8.774

Sutich, A. J. (1968). Transpersonal psychology: An emerging force. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 8(1), 77–79. https://doi.org/10.1177/002216786800800108

External links

• Authentic happiness (University of Pennsylvania)
• Happiness and why we want it (Nancy Etcoff, TED, 14:22 mins)
• Shiny happy people (Brad Lemley, Discover Magazine, 2006)
• What does it mean to be self-actualized in the 21st century? (Scott Barry Kaufmann, Scientific American, 2018)