Effects of Strength-Based Exercises on Depression Prevention and Promotion of Strengths in Adolescents
Abstract
Positive psychology, pioneered by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D. in the late
1990s, is an up-and-coming movement advocating a positive-oriented
psychology that develops and increases inherent strengths and positive
emotions in the individual. Although the studies of subjective well-being and
quality of life have existed in the areas of counseling and humanistic-based
psychology for several decades, positive psychology has aimed to unify and
push these areas into the greater academic realm of psychology, as well as
provide empirical support to its studies. Although the movement has achieved
much in understanding and describing why humans have positive emotions
and traits, it has yet to prescribe how positive psychology might be
implemented on an institutional level. This project explored positive
psychology’s background and how it might be applied institutionally by
designing a study involving adolescents and making positive-oriented changes
in behavior. The study proposed in this paper aims to assess whether doing
strength-based exercises (designed by Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson,
2005) in adolescence boosts individual strengths and prevents depression. It
has been hypothesized that over a period of five weeks in which adolescents
complete one strength-focusing exercise per week, implementing one’s
specific strengths will increase positive emotion, buffer against depression,
and lower depressive symptoms in adolescents, both immediately and on a
long-term basis.
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