Role of focusing on the positive side during COVID-19 outbreak: Mental health perspective from positive psychology.

Keiko Yamaguchi Yoshitake Takebayashi Mitsuhiro MiyamaeAsami KomazawaChika YokoyamaMasaya Ito

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2020)

This paper discusses how positive emotions can help maintain and improve mental health during the COVID-19 outbreak, taking into account examples of social interaction and positive psychology research efforts in Japanese context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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