Resource Guide:
Positive Psychology
Digital Open Education Resources
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Positive psychology
- Positive psychology -- Case studies
- Happiness
- Decision making
- Problem solving
- Operant behavior
- Self-efficacy
- Motivation (Psychology)
- Quality of life
- Self-realization
- Optimism
- Values (Ethics)
- Individual development
- Life skills
- Self-esteem
- Attention OR Mindfulness
- Habit
- Habit breaking
- Self-control OR Will
- Goal (Psychology)
- Mental health
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- Alt HealthWatch
- Associates Programs Source
- Business Source Complete
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
- Credo Reference
- Education Research Complete
- ERIC
- Health Source – Consumer Edition
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- JSTOR
- MasterFILE Premier
- Medline
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- Oxford Bibliographies Online
- Oxford Reference
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- Proquest Major Dailies
- PsycInfo
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- PubMed
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- Wiley Online Library
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- The Journal of Positive Psychology
- Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
- Applied Developmental Science
- Health & Quality of Life Outcomes
- Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal
- PLoS One
- Indian Journal of Positive Psychology
- Journal of Happiness Studies
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The Best Within Us: Positive Psychology Perspectives on Eudaimonia | BF 204.6 .B477 201 |
| Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness | BF 575 .H27 B444 2014 |
| Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change | BF 575 .H27 A267 2013 |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | BF 335 .D76 2012 |
| Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being | BF 204.6 .S45 2011 |
| Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength | BF 623 .B292 2011 |
| Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology | BF 204.6 .O95 2009 |
| Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control | BF 637 .S38 B36 1997 |
| Healthy Habits Suck : How to Get Off the Couch and Live a Healthy Life… Even If You Don't Want To | eBook 2019 |
| Positive Organizational Psychology : Advances in Creating Improved Workplaces and Employee Well-Being | eBook 2015 |
| Enabling Positive Change : Flow and Complexity in Daily Experience | eBook 2014 |
| Optimal Human Being : An Integrated Multi-level Perspective | eBook 2004 |
| The 15-second Principle : Short, Simple, Steps to Achieving Long-term Goals | eBook 2004 |