Sports, Creativity, and TV: Diverse Leisure Positively Impacts Psychological Well-Being
Life satisfaction is higher among those who engage in diverse leisure activities, researchers from HSE University have found. However, the specific types of activities people engage in are less important. The contribution of individual leisure activities to a sense of well-being accounts for no more than 2% of the variance. Only the diversity of leisure activities is significantly linked to overall life satisfaction and a sense of meaningful time usage.
"What makes them suffer?: Individual and institutional predictors of distress in French doctoral students"
The Deputy Head of the Laboratory Evegny Osin made a report about the factors contributing to difficulties experienced by doctoral students at French higher educational institutions.
Teaching Happiness at School
The Journal of Positive Psychology has published a paper by Ilona Boniwell, Evgeny Osin, and Charles Martinez "Teaching happiness at school: Non-randomised controlled mixed-methods feasibility study on the effectiveness of Personal Well-Being Lessons".
Positive Psychology — Even Gloomy People Can Be Contented
Ken M. Sheldon is Academic Supervisor at the HSE International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation. He talked to HSE English News about his collaboration with HSE and about working in an international environment.
Preliminary Ph.D. Defence
Congratulations to Oxana Sulimina on her successful preliminary defence of Ph.D. Thesis "Personality Development in the Period of Transition from Childhood to Adulthood in Different Conditions of Socialization (in family and without family)".
Tamara Gordeeva entered the Scientific Committee of the 8th European Conference on Positive Psychology
Tamara Gordeeva, Leading Researcher of the Laboratory, entered the Scientific Committee of the 8th European Conference on Positive Psychology
The Laboratory became a co-organizer of the International Conference "Care of Oneself in Pedagogy, Sociology and Psychology: History and Modernity"
International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation became a co-organizer of the International Conference "Care of Oneself in Pedagogy, Sociology and Psychology: History and Modernity" in memory of philosopher, sociologist, psychologist Galina V. Ivanchenko (1965-2009).
The Lab became a co-organizer of the International Scientific Conference "Self-care in Pedagogy, Sociology and Psychology: History and Modernity"
The Lab co-organized the International Scientific Conference "Self-care in Pedagogy, Sociology and Psychology: History and Modernity" in memory of philosopher, sociologist, psychologist G.V. Ivanchenko (1965-2009).
Meeting of Lab Staff Members
On August 12 the meeting of the staff members of the International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation was held.
Multiculturalism Could Work in Russia
Contemporary Russian society is divided more along the lines of education and professional qualifications than nationality. So said researchers at the annual international conference at HSE’s Laboratory for Sociocultural Research on intercultural and interethnic relations.