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The Positive Functioning at Work Scale: Psychometric Assessment, Validation, and Measurement Invariance

The PERMA framework (Seligman 2018) presents five building blocks of well-being - positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. However, Seligman (2018) suggested the original five building blocks are highly predictive of …

A Brief Measure of Problematic Smartphone Use Among Youth: Psychometric Assessment Using Item Response Theory

The purpose of this study was to use item response theory to assess a brief measure of problematic smartphone use among youth, using the 2017-2018 California Student Tobacco Survey (CSTS) collected from 119,981 students who own a smartphone across …

Examining Building Blocks of Well-Being Beyond PERMA and Self-Report Bias

Recent debates in the Journal of Positive Psychology about the nature and usefulness of PERMA have created confusion about its contribution toward the understanding and prediction of well-being. This empirical study was designed to clarify several …

Evaluating Positive Psychology Interventions at Work: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in the workplace aim to improve important outcomes, such as increased work engagement, job performance, and reduced job stress. Numerous empirical studies have been conducted in recent years to verify the …

Reinvigorating Research on Gender in the Workplace Using a Positive Work and Organizations Perspective

Gender inequality is a widespread organizational challenge, however, research on gender in the workplace suffers from stagnation in mainstream management research. A positive work and organizations perspective has the capacity to augment …

Where Do We Stand? Recent AEA member Views on Professionalization

The professionalization of evaluation continues to be debated at numerous conferences in the U.S. and abroad. At this time, AEA member views on the potential benefits and negative side effects of professionalization are essential as the discussion …

Professional Psychology Associations in the GCC: Positive Institutions Whose Time Has Come

Professional associations have a mandate to protect and regulate those members deemed qualified to provide mental health services to the public. This is accomplished through supervision and policing of practitioners’ conduct, informed by an …