Psychological Capital - AllPsych http://blog.allpsych.com/tag/psychological-capital/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:45:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Psychological Capital - AllPsych http://blog.allpsych.com/tag/psychological-capital/ 32 32 Building Psychological Capital (Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism) https://allpsych.com/building-psychological-capital-hope-efficacy-resilience-optimism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=building-psychological-capital-hope-efficacy-resilience-optimism Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:37:46 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=88268 You Can Bank On it Psychological capital in many ways is like a savings account for our well-being. Just as it is good to save money for a rainy day, it is good to build psychological capital. It is beneficial for good days and allows us greater comfort and safety in taking risks, being vulnerable,…

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]]> The Psychology of Finding the Silver Lining https://allpsych.com/the-psychology-of-finding-the-silver-lining/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-psychology-of-finding-the-silver-lining Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:13:43 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2648 Finding something good in a bad situation is a common way of coping with adversity, as can be seen when we talk about clouds, silver linings, and the like. It’s also a technique that has a decent amount of evidence to back it up from the psychology literature. Psychologists talk about benefit finding, or being…

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]]> The Advantages of Unrealistic Optimism https://allpsych.com/the-advantages-of-unrealistic-optimism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-advantages-of-unrealistic-optimism Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:53:59 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2643 Having a realistic view of the world might be overrated. One of the first psychology papers to explicitly make that case was published in 1988 by Shelley Taylor and Jonathon Brown, under the title Illusion and Well-being. It challenged the traditional idea that “accurate perceptions of the self, the world, and the future are essential…

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]]> Optimism, Brooding Rumination and Mental Time Travel in Everyday Life https://allpsych.com/optimism-brooding-rumination-and-mental-time-travel-in-everyday-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=optimism-brooding-rumination-and-mental-time-travel-in-everyday-life Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:26:03 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1690 We all engage in what psychologists call mental time travel. It’s not as futuristic as it sounds. Essentially, it’s just the ability to think about our past and future experiences. While we all engage in mental time travel, we don’t all do so the same amount, and we have different preferences as far as where…

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