Positive Psychology Interventions: A Case Study

The Solution: Positive Psychology Interventions

When using Positive Psychology, organizations need to take in mind that there are multiple measures to the methodology such as happiness, optimism, gratitude, positive affect, etc. When creating interventions, there are different measures that can be used for implementing Positive Psychology at work. Pryce-Jones and Lindsay (2014) looked at how the science of happiness in the workplace delivers strategic outcomes in change management, organizational, team and leadership development within a company. They provide an understanding of the theory and application of the science of happiness at work and show how strategic issues can be addressed within a small time frame and also highlight the benefit

He also incorporated the measure of individual-level happiness of employees which could include work engagement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Fisher (2010) particularly looked into how happiness is influenced by both short-lived events and chronic conditions in the task, job, and organization in the workplace. Happiness is also influenced by stable attributes of individuals such as personality, as well as the fit between what the job and organization and also provide and the individual’s expectations, needs and preferences (Fisher, 2010). In order to implement Positive Psychology, an organization has to take into account that their employees have different personalities and that their expectations and needs differ from one another. Every person is going to react and respond differently due to their differences in personality, so organizations must take this factor into account when creating interventions to increase happiness levels in their employees. Employees can also find happiness in engagement to their role as well as how satisfied they feel with their job. An organization can increase their employees’ happiness levels by making sure their employees actually enjoy their job. If an individual finds enjoyment

These helper T cells which assist in active immune response to a threat to the internal systems, increasing an individual’s immune system. Results also found that optimism could be associated with immune change during stressful circumstances (Segrestrom et al., 1998). More importantly, the students who scored high on optimism using the life orientation test questionnaire had more optimistic expectations for success, were confident in their emotions in regards to their first semester of law school, and tended to have higher white blood cell count and function (Segrestrom et al., 1998). Overall what this research found was that how an individual appraises stressful events relates to associated immune changes. When an individual has a more optimistic outlook on their lives and their work situation, they can increase their immune system and live a healthier life. Segrestrom et al., (1998) mentioned the consequences of a weakened immune response especially for college students, and combined with the high stress levels that occur in law school, they are more likely to get sick. With the huge workload, the students have to go through, their stress levels increase. By keeping an optimistic outlook, students can