Positive Psychology Progress in India: Accomplishments and Pathways Ahead

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How WEIRD are positive psychology interventions? A bibliometric analysis of randomized controlled trials on the science of well-being

“…We conducted a hand search through their websites. Finally, reference lists of four recent meta-analyses (Bolier et al, 2013;Chakhssi, Kraiss, Sommers-Spijkerman, & Bohlmeijer, 2018;Dickens, 2017;Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009) and seven recent review articles on PPIs (Casellas-Grau, Font, & Vives, 2014;Ghosh & Deb, 2016;Macaskill, 2016;Rashid, 2015;Sutipan, Intarakamhang, & Macaskill, 2016;Walsh, Cassidy, & Priebe, 2017;Woodworth, O'Brien-Malone, Diamond, & Schuz, 2016) were checked.…”

“…RCTs are often cost intensive and complex (Korn & Freidlin, 2012), and therefore may be a lesser used research design in non-Western countries. For example, an article on the progress of positive psychology in India reported eight recent studies on the effects of PPIs in India (Ghosh & Deb, 2016), but none of the studies were RCTs. In our analyses we identified 265 articles published in the Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, but only two of the studies (0.3%) were RCTs.…”

The efficacy of positive psychology interventions from non-Western countries: A systematic review and metaanalysis

“…Search strings were adapted according to the database (see Appendix A). The reference lists of three meta-analyses (Bolier et al, 2013;Chakhssi, Kraiss, Sommers-Spijkerman, & Bohlmeijer, 2018;Dickens, 2017) and seven review articles on PPIs (Casellas-Grau, Font, & Vives, 2014;Ghosh & Deb, 2016;Macaskill, 2016;Rashid, 2015;Sutipan, Intarakamhang, & Macaskill, 2017;Walsh, Cassidy, & Priebe, 2016;Woodworth, O-Brien-Malone, Diamond, & Schüz, 2016) were also checked. In addition, a hand search through the websites of three known non-Western journals in the field of positive psychology was conducted, namely, the websites of the Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, the Iranian Journal of Positive Psychology, and the Middle East Journal of Positive Psychology.…”

Explanatory Styles of Counsellors in Training

“…(2019) studied bi-directional and longitudinal attributions, coping, and health functioning among adolescents with chronic illness and their parents. Explanatory styles have also been considered in the context of coaching women for health and lifestyle change (Stelter and Andersen 2018); learned helplessness and depression (Forgeard et al 2011); varying cultural backgrounds and life experiences (Ghosh and Deb 2016); longitudinal health (Hajek and Konig 2017); Latinx college students (Vela et al 2018); and psychiatric disorders in soldiers (Shrestha et al 2018).…”