SUBJECT

Title

Personality Antecedents of Psychological Immunity. The Positive Psychological Model of Coping

Code

DPSY16-POS-104

Type of instruction

practice

Level

Doctoral

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Part of degree program

Doctoral School of Psychology

Credits

Recommended in

Semester 1-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

The aims of the course are to review the constructs of stress and coping in a salutogenetic approach and to analyze the protective traits of personality and those personality components which provide psychological immunity. As the course has a positive psychological perspective, it focuses on the analysis of the operational efficiency of copingsavoring tandem, its relationship with the position on the languishing-flourishing dimension and the levels of well-being and mental health as well.

Readings

Peterson, C., Seligman, M. (2004). Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification. New York, Oxford University Press.
Keyes, C. L. (2007). Promoting and Protecting Mental Health as Flourishing: A Complementary Strategy for Improving National Mental Health. American Psychologist, 62 (2), 95-108.
Bryant, F. B., & Veroff, J. (2007). Savoring: A new model of positive experience. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
Oláh, A and Nagy, H. (2014) Flow, emotional intelligence and Psychological immunity. Eötvös University Press. Budapest 177 pp.