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1 POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers: Theoretically and practically, in their work with clients and research, they focused their attention on human needs and healthy human development. Humanistic psychology brought new beliefs that a person has a desire to live his life in a way that gives him the feeling that he is developing and fulfilling his potential. One is happy when one learns, improves, uses and develops one’s abilities. In the Person-Centered Approach (PCA), Carl Rogers states, among other things, that authenticity (being oneself) and self-acceptance make a significant contribution to self-satisfaction and life. Martin Seligman, President of the American Psychological Association, and founder of Positive Psychology (1999): He emphasizes the meaningfulness of being and he is the author of the 2002 theory of true happiness, which measures life satisfaction and, in a larger study from 2014, measures well-being (Seligman, 2014). Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Even before founding Positive Psychology of the Decade, he researched the so-called optimal survival, a state of mind he called FLOW. We experience FLOW during demanding activities when we concentrate fully and are relaxed. People who experience such conditions are happier because of them. Barbara Fredrickson: In her action theory, the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, she explored the importance of positive emotions, which allow people to be creative, playful, and curious, giving them opportunities to gain new physical, social and intellectual resources. Daniel Goleman: He dealt with emotional intelligence in the positive psychology movement. He intended to seek the penetration of rational cognition into emotional life. Expressing young people’s emotions is part of the process of formal and non-formal education at school and beyond, and therefore he emphasizes the need to address socio-emotional literacy. Socio-emotional literacy should be part of the school curriculum or part of the teaching and learning subjects. The scientific and professional work of the representatives of positive psychology documents the cooperation according to the focus of their subject of research. The most extensive collaboration of the positive psychology movement is a monograph about positive psychology, written by Snyder and Lopez, to which 107 contributors contributed. Authors who contributed their thoughts are Seligman, Maddux, Wright, Lopez, Keyes, Watson, Nakamura, Csikszentmihalyi, Diener, Lucas, Fredrickson, Knapp and others. At the individual s 13 e
