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Ad Bergsma 《Journal of Happiness Studies》2008,9(3):445-448
One of the aims of this special issue on happiness advice was to assess the reality value of recommendations. All papers checked
empirical indications for effectiveness, typically by inspecting whether the things advised have been found to be related
to happiness in empirical research. Some limitations of this approach are that some advisers used a different definition of
happiness than the papers, the papers checked the advice for present day readers, not for the contemporaries of advisers,
the data that is used to check the advice is most often correlative in nature, and the papers ignored personality differences.
Future research should focus on a wider range of happiness advisers, look at the interaction of the advice and individual
readers and address the question of the usefulness of the advice experimentally. 相似文献
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Ad Bergsma 《Journal of Happiness Studies》2008,9(3):341-360
Advice for a happier life is found in so-called ‘self-help books’, which are widely sold in modern countries these days. These
books popularize insights from psychological science and draw in particular on the newly developing ‘positive psychology’.
An analysis of 57 best-selling psychology books in the Netherlands makes clear that the primary aim is not to alleviate the
symptoms of psychological disorders, but to enhance personal strengths and functioning. Common themes are: personal growth,
personal relations, coping with stress and identity. There is a lot of skepticism about these self-help books. Some claim
that they provide false hope or even do harm. Yet there are also reasons to expect positive effects from reading such books.
One reason is that the messages fit fairly well with observed conditions for happiness and another reason is that such books
may encourage active coping. There is also evidence for the effectiveness of bibliotherapy in the treatment of psychological
disorders. The positive and negative consequences of self-help are a neglected subject in academic psychology. This is regrettable,
because self-help books may be the most important—although not the most reliable—channel through which psychological insights
find their way to the general audience. 相似文献
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