Is Coaching a Positive Psychology Intervention? Exploring the Relationships Between Positive Psychology, Applied Positive Psychology, Coaching Psychology, and Coaching

Lomas, Tim

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20583-6_16

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“…His view is also supported by Kauffman (2006), who underlined the challenge of demonstrating the effectiveness of coaching due to lack of 'theoretical, scientific, or empirical explanations to support their assertions of coaching effectiveness' (p. 6), thus suggesting a hierarchical relationship between the two fields, whereby one field addresses another field's shortcomings. In contrast, other researchers claimed that both coaching and positive psychology may have a more reciprocal relationship (Lomas et al, 2017), and suggested that the use of PPIs in coaching may be questionable because coaching may be even considered a positive psychology intervention (Biswas-Diener, 20092009;Biswas-Diener, 2010;Lomas, 2019), thus blurring the boundaries of the fields. This is a rapidly growing trend in the latest literature heralding a more integrative approach to a positive psychology coaching practice (Van Nieuwerburgh et al, 2018).…”

Section: Coaching and Positive Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive psychology intervention (PPI) coaching: an experimental application of coaching to improve the effectiveness of a gratitude intervention

Trom

Burke

2021

Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Prac

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Combining positive psychology with coaching is a complex matter. While most positive psychology coaching research promotes the use of positive psychology interventions in a coaching practice, the current study attempted to turn it on its head, and use coaching to amplify the effect of positive psychology interventions. In one-week-long randomised controlled trial with 45 participants, 24 (wait/control group) of them completed a gratitude-only intervention, whilst the remaining 21 (experimental group) engaged in a gratitude-and-coaching intervention. Three measures were used to identify the wellbeing differences of wait/control and experimental groups preintervention and immediately after the intervention. Pairedsample t-test results showed that participants in the gratitudeonly intervention enhanced aspects of their subjective wellbeing, whereas those in the gratitude-and-coaching intervention increased an aspect of their eudaimonic wellbeing and dispositional gratitude. The study provided preliminary evidence that coaching can be used to amplify the effect of positive psychology interventions. The implications of the study are discussed along with the recommendations for future research.

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Section: Coaching and Positive Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%