Assessment 3

A positive emotion is an emotional reaction designed to express a negative affect, such as unhappiness when one attains a goal.

Positive emotions promote optimism and increases feelings of personal control and power making people more likely to believe good things will happen in the future.

Recognition is a synonyme of gratitude.

People who perform acts of kindness towards others do not get a boost in well-being and they are not also more accepted by their peers

Positive education wants to bring positive psychology’s goals of well-being and mental health support for everyone into the school setting.

Gratitude and optimism are positive emotions which help children to be happy.

Positive emotions are not associated with behavioural changes, including increased goal directed behaviour, approach and persistence.

Gratitude is a feeling that occurs in interpersonal exchanges when one person acknowledges receiving a valuable benefit from another

Optimists are people who anticipate positive outcomes, through perseverance and effort, and who are confident of attaining desired goals.

Nowadays, the need for positive education is not growing because the depression among young people does not exist anymore.