Emotional health
Emotional health can lead to success in work, relationships and health. In the past, researchers believed that success made people happy. Newer research reveals that it’s the other way around. Happy people are more likely to work toward goals, find the resources they need and attract others with their energy and optimism — key building blocks of success.
Adapted from “Review of research challenges assumption that success makes people happy”
What You Can Do
- Turning Lemons into Lemonade: Hardiness Helps People Turn Stressful Circumstances into Opportunities
Research shows hardiness is the key to the resiliency for not only surviving, but also thriving, under stress. Hardiness enhances performance, leadership, conduct, stamina, mood and both physical and mental health.
- The happiness diet
Sonja Lyubomirsky argues that limiting overthinking can improve our emotional well-being.
Getting Help
News
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Sleep may intensify negative emotions, memories
January 17, 2012, Fox News
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Why do we get happier with age?
January 8, 2012, Psych Central
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National pride brings happiness, but what you're proud of matters
December 9, 2011, ScienceDaily
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Emotions without language
November 4, 2011, Medical News Today
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Learn about relationships from 'the happiest woman'
November 2, 2011, USA Today
Monitor on Psychology Articles
- Golden rule redux
July 2011
- Examining emotions' impact
February 2011
- What makes life worth living?
September 2010
- Stumbling on happiness
May 2010
- More students—with more serious psychological issues—are showing up at campus counseling centers
April 2010
