Ruch Proyer Harzer
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Orientations to happiness: What makes a happy life? | ||||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Seligman (2002) suggested that there are three basic orientations that lead to a happy life. First, there is the pleasurable life that is based on the principle of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. Second, the meaningful life suggests that happiness can be achieved by using ones skills and talents in the service of greater goods. Finally, the engaged life is influenced by Csikszentmihalyi’s works on flow. Peterson, Park, and Seligman (2005) developed an 18-item measure for the subjective assessment of the three orientations to happiness. The most important part in the project is the German adaptation of the Orientations to Happiness scale. Further projects focus on the application of the scale in different areas such as cross-cultural research. Furthermore, the relations of the orientation to happiness with the satisfaction with life will be examined in more detail. The research projects will focus on different indicators and areas of satisfaction with life. | ||||||
| Publications / Publikationen | Park, N., Peterson, C. & Ruch, W. (2009) Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: National comparisons (Special Issue on What makes for a Good Life? International and interdisciplinary perspectives). Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 273-279.Peterson, C., Ruch, W., Beermann, U., Park, N. & Seligman, M. E. P. (2007). Strengths of character, orientation to happiness, and life satisfaction. Journal of Positive Psychology, 2, 149-156.Proyer, R. T., Ruch, W., & Chen, G. (in press). Positive psychology and the fear of being laughed at: Gelotophobia and its relations to orientations to happiness and life satisfaction in Austria, China, and Switzerland. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research.Ruch, W., Harzer, C. Proyer, R. T., Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2010). Ways to happiness in German-speaking countries: The adaptation of the German version of the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire in paper-pencil and internet samples. European Journal of Personality Assessment, 26(3):227-234Ruch, W., Huber, A., Beermann, U., & Proyer, R. T. (2007). Character strengths as predictors of the “good life” in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In Romanian Academy, “George Barit“ Institute of History, Department of Social Research (Ed.), Studies and researches in social sciences (Vol. 16). Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Argonaut Press, 123-131.Harzer, C. & Ruch, W. (2008, September). Drei Wege zum Glück: Zur Reliabilität und Validität der deutschsprachigen Version des OTH von Peterson, Park und Seligman (2005) [Three Orientations to Happiness: Reliability and validity of the German version of the OTH from Peterson, Park, and Seligman (2005)]. Poster session presented at the 4th LiMaDoKo of the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.Harzer, C., Ruch, W., Proyer, R. & Peterson, C. (2007, September). Drei Wege zum Glück: Psychometrische Überprüfung der deutschspachigen Version des OTH von Peterson, Park und Seligman (2005) [Three Orientations to Happiness: Reliability and validity of the German version of the OTH from Peterson, Park, and Seligman (2005)]. Poster session presented at the 9th Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe für Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. | ||||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Hedonism, engagement, flow, eudemonia, orientations to happiness | ||||||
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Others Parts of the data collection and translation of the scales were facilitated by the Suzanne and Hans Biäsch Foundation. |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jun 2007 to Sep 2010 |