7 articles in this issue
Carol Graham,Sarah Crown
A number of studies find that religious people are happier than non-religious ones. Yet a number of fundamental questions about that relationship remain unanswered. A critical one is the direction of causality: does religion make people happier or are hap... see more
Miriam Henke,Anna Chur-Hansen
Objective: Research into and the clinical use of mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention have increased in recent years and the results have been promising in a range of illness populations. One area in which mindfulness has been trialled is fibromyalgi... see more
James Gavin,Matthew Keough,Michael Abravanel,Tatiana Moudrakovski,Madeleine Mcbrearty
This investigation explored motivations for engaging in physical activity and how they varied across the lifespan. A total of 1,885 individuals completed a comprehensive questionnaire concerning personal style, activity interests, motives for exercising, ... see more
Lucy Clare Hone,Aaron Jarden,Grant M. Schofield,Scott Duncan
The epidemiology of flourishing is an important research topic prompting international interest in its psychometric assessment. But the need to measure human feelings and functioning at the population level has resulted in the creation of a multitude of d... see more
Stephen Schueller,Todd Kashdan,Acacia Parks
Systematic reviews, such as meta-analyses, are highly valued within scientific, professional, and lay communities because they provide an easily digestible aggregate of a large body of work. A recently published meta-analysis of positive psychology interv... see more
Linda Bolier,Merel Haverman,Gerben J Westerhof,Heleen Riper,Filip Smit,Ernst Bohlmeijer
The article of Schueller, Kashdan and Parks (2014) provides us with the opportunity to further clarify some aspects of the design and the choices we made in our meta-analysis "Positive psychology interventions: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled stu... see more
Dan Weijers
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