Motivation: Part 7

• short-term, present moment, ratio of positive to negative emotions
• sometimes have to sacrifice positive emotions for long-term goals
• avoid negative emotions

• negative emotions have adaptive value
• work towards optimal functioning and self-realization
• WB results from the expression of our inner potentials and functioning in a positive healthy way
• building mental health

satisfaction derived from overcoming challenges

in order to achieve and grow it is necessary to do hard things that do not always directly increase happiness

involves social, emotional, and psychological well-being

• self-acceptance
• personal growth
• purpose in life
• autonomy
• positive relations with others
• environmental mastery

• positive evaluation and attitude towards the self, both the positive and negative aspects of who we are, as well as our past self
• part of psychological well-being

• feel as though you are growing as a person
• open to new experiences and challenges
• part of psychological well-being

• having goals and direction in life
• feeling that life has meaning and purpose
• part of psychological well-being

• satisfaction of the need for autonomy
• part of psychological well-being

• satisfaction of the need for relatedness
• part of psychological well-being

• satisfaction of the need for competence
• part of psychological well-being

five components that are related to psychological well-being and psychological needs

• vitality
• self-actualization
• self-realization
• meaning

• natural tendency to flourish and actualize the self
• top of Maslow's pyramid
• humanistic view

• elements within the self lead to self-actualization
• growth choices
• authenticity
• peak experiences
• dropping defensiveness
• allow the self to emerge
• openness to experiences

• make decisions to learn and change as a person rather than seek validation via comparing yourself to a standard
• part of self-facilitation

• be authentic with yourself and connected to your true self
• chose to do what you do because you want to autonomously
• part of self-facilitation

• know yourself to a degree where you can seek out situations that will lead to flow
• connected to self-efficacy and mindset theory
• finding situations which allow for negative feedback
• part of self-facilitation

• allow yourself to accept critiques and negative feedback
• part of self-facilitation

• find your strengths and talents (everyone has them) so that you can actualize them
• part of self-facilitation

being open makes it possible to change and grow

• elements of the environment which help to increase an individual's self-actualization tendency
• fulfillment of psychological needs
• unconditional positive regard
• relationships

• supporting psychological needs leads to self-actualization
• environmental facilitator

• in the absence of this, people will sacrifice their autonomy to gain positive regard
• environmental facilitator

• environmental facilitator
• helping others
• relating to others authentically
• promoting the freedom to learn

• your own psychological needs are met when you help another person meet their psychological needs
• environmental facilitator
• relationships as a facilitator

• showing your true self to another person without imposing it
• environmental facilitator
• relationships as a facilitator

• promoting learning that is intrinsic and not contingent on anything else (eg. grades)
• environmental facilitator
• relationships as a facilitator

• social environment can help you to determine who you are
• involves negative feedback
• other people can help you find your strengths
• similar idea to knowing the self
• environmental facilitator
• relationships as a facilitator

• making sense of the things that happen to us
• if we cannot, we experience the world as meaningless -> poor mental helath

• look for meaning in an attempt to experience the presence of meaning
• informs us of where we are in terms of personal growth

• always try to make sense of events
• connection to secondary appraisal and model of attribution

• being in congruence with the true self
• eg. congruent, coherent goals