Positive Psychological Intervention Design and Protocols for Multi-Cultural Contexts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Best-Practice Guidelines for Positive Psychological Intervention Research Design

   • Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl, Emir Efendic, Sebastiaan Rothmann Sr., Rebecca Shankland

   Pages 1-32

3. The Talent Development Centre as an Integrated Positive Psychological Leadership Development and Talent Analytics Framework

   • Frederick Wilhelm Stander, Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl

   Pages 33-56

4. A Cultural Lens Approach to Promoting Work as a Calling

   • Bryan J. Dik, Brian A. Canning, Dylan R. Marsh

   Pages 57-80

5. Psychological Capital Development in Organizations: An Integrative Review of Evidence-Based Intervention Programs

   • Marisa Salanova, Alberto Ortega-Maldonado

   Pages 81-102

6. Job Crafting Interventions: Do They Work and Why?

   • Evangelia Demerouti, Maria C. W. Peeters, Machteld van den Heuvel

   Pages 103-125

7. Gratitude Interventions: Meta-analytic Support for Numerous Personal Benefits, with Caveats

   • Leah R. Dickens

   Pages 127-147

8. Developing Savoring Interventions for Use in Multicultural Contexts: Bridging the East-West Divide

   • Jennifer L. Smith, Soyeon Kim, Fred B. Bryant

   Pages 149-170

9. Positive Psychological Interventions Aimed at Managing Territorial Behaviours Within the Organisational Context

   • Chantal Olckers, Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl

   Pages 171-191

10. The Open Case as a Setting for Addressing Challenges in Small Groups: Post-graduate Computer Science Students’ Perspectives

    • Renate Motschnig, Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl

    Pages 193-215

11. A Framework for Assessing and Developing Self-regulatory Positive Psychological Career Attributes for Sustained Employability

    • Melinde Coetzee

    Pages 217-240

12. Measuring Flourishing @ Work Interventions: The Development and Validation of the Flourishing-at-Work Scale

    • Sebastiaan Rothmann Sr., Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl, Cindy Rautenbach

    Pages 241-276

13. Developing Positive Psychological Interventions: Maximizing Efficacy for Use in Eastern Cultures

    • Weiting Ng, Wei Shyan Lim

    Pages 277-295

14. Design for Engagement of Online Positive Psychology Interventions

    • Saskia M. Kelders

    Pages 297-313

15. How to Create a Flourishing Classroom? An Intervention Protocol for Enhancing Teachers’ Social and Emotional Learning

    • Markus Talvio, Kirsti Lonka

    Pages 315-339

16. Exploring Flourishing in a Multicultural Work Context: Proposed Constructs for Interventions

    • Anindita Ghosh

    Pages 341-360

17. Developing Leaders in Multicultural Organisational Contexts Within a Positive Psychology Framework: Jung’s Active Imagination Intervention

    • Claude-Hélène Mayer, Rudolf M. Oosthuizen

    Pages 361-379

18. Inspiring Growth: A Counselling Framework for Industrial Psychology Practitioners

    • Lené I. Jorgensen-Graupner, Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl

    Pages 381-404

19. The Virtual Gratitude Visit (VGV): Using Psychodrama and Role-Playing as a Positive Intervention

    • Daniel J. Tomasulo

    Pages 405-413

20. Positive Journal Writing Across Multicultural Contexts: A Protocol for Practice

    • Megan Christine Hayes, Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl

    Pages 415-433

This volume presents innovative and contemporary methodologies and intervention protocols for the enhancement of positive psychological attributes in multicultural professional and organizational contexts. Most methods, models and approaches that underpin positive psychological interventions are confined to clinical samples, closed systems or monocultural contexts, which restrict their applicability to particular contexts. Extensive practical intervention protocols, designs and methods which usually accompany first draft intervention papers are condensed into brief paragraphs in final manuscripts or removed in their entirety. This, in turn, reduces their potential for replicability or adoption by consumers, practitioners, or industry. This volume develops guidelines for enhancing positive psychological attributes, such as positive moods (e.g. positive affect; life satisfaction), strengths (e.g. gratitude; humour),  cognitions (e.g. hope; optimism) and  behaviours (e.g. emotional regulation; positive relationship building) within various multicultural contexts. Thereby, it shows how positive psychology interventions can be replicated to a wide-range of contexts beyond those in which they were developed. 

• Positive Psychological Interventions
• Self-administered Intentional Activities
• Group Based Strengths Development
• Replicating PPI Studies
• Adventure Therapy
• Employability Attributes Scale
• Open Case Setting
• Humor Training in Multicultural Contexts
• Self-determination Theory
• Narrative Identity Team Intervention

• Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Human Performance Management Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl

• Optentia Research Focus Area, North-West University Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa

  Sebastiaan Rothmann Sr.

Llewellyn van Zyl (PhD) is currently an assistant professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.  He also holds an extraordinary professorship in Industrial Psychology with the Optentia Research Focus Area at the North-West University. Academically, he has completed a Doctorate degree in the field of Industrial Psychology, specializing in the development and evaluation of Positive Psychological Interventions aimed at increasing happiness. He also holds a Master of Commerce, an Honours and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Psychology, which were obtained from the North-West University (cum laude) at the top of his class. These qualifications provided him with a means to register with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a psychologist (cat: industrial). Professionally, Llewellyn is a respected researcher and published author of various scientific articles and specialist books. Within the scientific community he is known for his academic work as Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology as well as his work on the editorial board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational studies. Llewellyn has extensive experience within the tertiary educational environment (as a lecturer and researcher), as well as within the private and public sectors (as a consultant). Llewellyn has a passion for Online Positive Psychological Interventions aimed at talent development and consumer behaviour. As of 1 January 2017, Llewellyn holds the ranking as a C2 rated researcher with the National Research Foundation within South Africa.

 

Sebastiaan Rothmann (Ph.D) is a professor in Industrial/Organisational Psychology at the North-West University (Vanderbijlpark Campus) and the Director of the Optentia Research Programme in South Africa. His research journey started with the topics of stress, burnout and work engagement and has evolved towards prospering and flourishing of people in work and organisational contexts. People who prosper in work and organisational contexts are satisfied with their jobs, experience positive emotions, are energetic, learning and dedicated, experience satisfaction of their autonomy, competence and relatedness needs, find meaning and purpose in their work, experience harmony and relate positively. He focuses on researching the prospering of people at work, the antecedents and outcomes thereof, and intervention programmes that could contribute to prospering of individuals and organisations.

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