Psychology A2 · Health Psychology. The idea in plain words, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid and a worked example, written and checked by Mega Lecture.
People often ignore good health advice. One reason is unrealistic optimism: the belief that bad events are less likely to happen to me than to other people like me. Weinstein (1980) asked college students to rate their own chances of future life events compared with their classmates. Most rated their chances of good events as above average and of bad events as below average, which cannot be true for the group as a whole.
Positive psychology (Seligman) is the scientific study of what makes life go well, not only of what goes wrong. It describes three kinds of happy life: pleasant, good and meaningful.
Shoshani and Steinmetz (2014) tested a positive psychology programme in a school in Israel.
Students swap the good life and the meaningful life. The good life is about being absorbed in what you are good at; the meaningful life adds a purpose beyond yourself.
Answer: The good life.
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