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The central hypothesis of new work on Agency is that when people believe they can achieve their goals, progress occurs. When they do not have this mindset, stagnation occurs. This seems to be true for the Greco-Roman Epoch, Ancient China, Biblical time, and Europe from 400 CE to 1800. New quantitative methods for measuring progress and for measuring the frequency of agentic words allow for rigorous collaboration between psychologists and historians. These same methods may contribute to predicting the future.

Das Gefühl, die Kontrolle zu verlieren, hilflos zu sein, kann weitreichende Folgen haben: Depression, Angst und schließlich Apathie. Martin Seligmans bahnbrechende Untersuchung aus dem Jahre 1974 ist ein Standardwerk der Sozialwissenschaften. 1974 veröffentlichte Martin Seligman sein bahnbrechendes Erklärungsmodell über den Zusammenhang zwischen Hilflosigkeit, Angst, Depression und Apathie. Es wurde zum Ausgangspunkt ungezählter Untersuchungen und Abhandlungen in der Klinischen Psychologie, der Entwicklungs- und Sozialpsychologie, der Pädagogik und auch der Soziologie. Seligmans Theorie der »erlernten Hilflosigkeit«, die er an vielen anschaulichen Beispielen entwickelt, erklärt psychische Störungen, aber auch gesellschaftliche Zustände wie Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit. Ein Standardwerk der Sozialwissenschaften. Martin E. Seligman ist als Professor für Psychologie an der University of Pennsylvania tätig. Seligman hat im Bereich der positiven Psychologie eine Pionierfunktion übernommen und bekleidete einige Zeit das Amt des Präsidenten der American Psychological Association (APA).

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17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under temporary embargo. ; The Research: The researchers followed nearly 1 million U.S. Army service members for five years, measuring their relative happiness and optimism using 25 questions drawn from PANAS and the Life Orientation Test. The questions were included on a larger survey taken by every Army soldier each year. This well-being measurement combines individuals' own self-assessments and their reporting on the frequency of positive and negative emotions experienced, to yield the researchers' measure of happiness. Even after the researchers controlled for previous performance and a range of demographic factors, soldiers who were the happiest and most optimistic went on to earn significantly more job performance awards across the next five years compared with those who were initially unhappy and pessimistic. ; U.S. Government affiliation is unstated in article text.

Many experts now recognize that income is not a measure that alone captures the wellbeing of individuals, and governments around the world are starting to rethink the ways in which they measure the welfare of their citizens. Wellbeing is best understood as a multifaceted phenomenon that can be assessed by measuring a wide array of subjective and objective constructs. This review summarizes the state of research on the various domains of wellbeing measured by psychologists and social scientists, and provides an overview of the main theoretical perspectives that integrate these domains. Among these theoretical perspectives, we highlight Well-being Theory, which decomposes the wellbeing construct into five domains: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA). We conclude by formulating recommendations for future research on the measurement of wellbeing. These recommendations include the need to combine both objective and subjective indicators, and the use of a dashboard approach to measurement. This approach conveys the multifaceted nature of wellbeing and will help policy-makers and citizens understand which domains of wellbeing should constitute priorities for public policy.

The Department of Defense (DoD) strives to efficiently manage the large volumes of administrative data collected and repurpose this information for research and analyses with policy implications. This need is especially present in the United States Army, which maintains numerous electronic databases with information on more than one million Active-Duty, Reserve, and National Guard soldiers, their family members, and Army civilian employees. The accumulation of vast amounts of digitized health, military service, and demographic data thus approaches, and may even exceed, traditional benchmarks for Big Data. Given the challenges of disseminating sensitive personal and health information, the Person-Event Data Environment (PDE) was created to unify disparate Army and DoD databases in a secure cloud-based enclave. This electronic repository serves the ultimate goal of achieving cost efficiencies in psychological and healthcare studies and provides a platform for collaboration among diverse scientists. This paper provides an overview of the uses of the PDE to perform command surveillance and policy analysis for Army leadership. The paper highlights the confluence of both economic and behavioral science perspectives elucidating empirically-based studies examining relations between psychological assets, health, and healthcare utilization. Specific examples explore the role of psychological assets in major cost drivers such as medical expenditures both during deployment and stateside, drug use, attrition from basic training, and low reenlistment rates. Through creation of the PDE, the Army and scientific community can now capitalize on the vast amounts of personnel, financial, medical, training and education, deployment, and security systems that influence Army-wide policies and procedures.