Positive emotions like joy, love, interest and pride can lead to greater well-being according to the broaden-and-build model. This model suggests that positive emotions broaden thinking and build enduring physical, psychological and social resources over time. Some benefits of positive emotions include broadened thinking, stress reduction, resilience, and improved health and relationships. Cultivating positive emotions through activities, relationships and focusing beyond oneself can promote well-being and success. However, traumatic experiences can still negatively impact well-being despite positive emotions.

1. POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND
WELL-BEING
NISHMA.V.M
,MSc.Apllied Psychology
Pondicherry university

2. WHAT ARE POSITIVE EMOTIONS?

3. Positive affect
 Cheerfulness , joy , contentment, and
happiness
Negative affect
 Anger, fear , sadness , guilt , contempt , and
disgust

4. Broaden-and –Build Model
 Provides an overview of how positive
emotions helps to build
physical,psychological, and social resources
that promote well-being.

5. Two distinctions
1) mood and emotion:
 mood is a more genaral concept than emotion
because it refers to our overall feelings
 In contrast emotions are more temporary states
that are tied to personally meaningful evnts
The theory is focused on positive emotions like joy,
love, interest, pride and contentment.
 Describes the effect of positive emotions as
oposit to the effect of negative emotions

6. 2)Sensory pleasures and positive emotions
 positive emotions should not be confuced
with simple sensory pleasures.

7. FOUR OUTCOMES OF OSITIVE EMOTIONS-
1) Positive emotions broaden our thought-action repertoires:
Negative emotions- narrow our thoughts
Positive emotions - widen our thoughts
2) Positive emotions undo negative emotions:
it seem to produce oposit effects.
3) Positive emotions enhance resilience:
It will offset the effect of negative emotions.
4)Positive emotions build enduring resources and improve
well-being:

8. Positive Emotions and Health
Resources
 Both positive and negative emotions have
the potentials to set a verity of physical ,
psychological , and social changes that can
either compromise or enhance our health.

9. Physical Resource:
 Four resources which effect our health are
 Brain
 Nervous system as a whole
 The endocrine system
 Immune system

10. Psychological Resource:
 Positive emotions and coping with stress:
need of strength and effectiveness of our
intellectual, behavioural and emotional
efforts
 problem-focused coping:
 Emotion-focused coping
 Proactive coping

11. Social Resource:
 People who engaged in a close network and
supportive relationship enjoy better health
and more personal happiness than those who
lack such networks.
 Less sick and Live longer
 Lack of social ties, loss of significant
relationship Loneliness, depression,
personal distress & unhappiness

12. LIMITATIONS OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS
 Providing no guarantee for long and happy
life
 Traumatic experiences like death and spouse
can overwhelm our coping resources

13. Positive Emotions and Well-Being
 Positve emotions contribute to more flexible,
creative and resilient responses in the face of
challenge
 Happy people are more tolerant and less
prejudicial, more compassionate, more
focused on others, more helpful and more
enjoyable with others

14. Positive Emotions and success
 Happy people are greatly found to enjoy
greater success in marriage life , friendship ,
income , workand mental and physical
health.

15. Positive Emotions and flourishing
 It is the state of optimal human functioning.
 It is the complete mental health.

16. Cultivating positive emotions
 mental state of operation in which a person performing an
activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full
involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
 Act happy
 Seek work and leisure that engages your skills
 Take control of your time
 Daily exercise
 Sleep well
 Establish close relationship
 Focus beyond the self
 Spiritual activity

17.  Reading a book
 Going for a party
 Fixing a good meal with family
 Painting
 Photography
 Listening to music…

18. REFERENCE
 R.S.Baumgardner, K.M.Crothers (2009). Positive
psychology,newdelhi, Dorling kindersely
pvt.ltd,India.