As such, this paper aims to explore seven of the grand challenges facing positive psychology and attempts to identify possible routes for future research areas.
Therefore, a clear and consolidated view of the criticisms and critiques is required to help chart a course for future directions in positive psychology. However, within these criticisms and critiques lies unique opportunities to channel future growth and development of the discipline. This, in turn, has negatively affected positive psychology's scientific credibility and public perception ( Van Zyl and Ten Klooster, 2022). Since its formal inception in 2000, many scholars have questioned the unique contribution of the paradigm as well as the validity of the theories, methods, interventions, and philosophy underpinning the discipline ( Brown et al., 2014 Goodman et al., 2017 Wong and Roy, 2017 Compton and Hoffman, 2019 Van Zyl, 2019 Yakushko, 2019). However, despite its growth and contribution, positive psychology is not without its challenges. These developments have produced significant insights into the human condition and provided innovative solutions to complex individual-, organizational- and societal problems ( Worthington and Van Zyl, 2021). With these collective efforts, positive psychology has given birth to several revolutionary theories, methodologies, frameworks, and approaches to measure, explain and develop the conditions required for individuals to thrive, communities to flourish, and societies to prosper ( Lomas et al., 2021).
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Positive psychology has broadened our understanding of the elements underpinning wellbeing and the factors that undermine them with the collective efforts of academics, journals, professional societies, practitioners, and the public ( Ng et al., 2021 Worthington and Van Zyl, 2021). This paradigm of studying “what's right” rather than “what's wrong” has also led to the establishment of several focus areas ranging from positive risk management, positive health, and positive coaching ( Van Zyl et al., 2020b Richter et al., 2021) to positive organizational psychology ( Donaldson and Ko, 2010), positive artificial intelligence ( da Silva, 2020) and positive computing ( Jeong et al., 2020). With applications ranging from neuroscience to architecture and from climate change to criminology ( Greene and Seligman, 2016 Sander et al., 2019), the scientific study of the positive states, -traits, and -behaviors underpinning quality of life has flourished ( Bohlmeijer and Westerhof, 2021). Positive psychology is one of the fastest-growing sub-disciplines of psychology ( Donaldson et al., 2021 Martín-del-Río et al., 2021) and established itself as a genuinely transdisciplinary science ( Lomas et al., 2021).
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