Positive Psychology’s Character Strengths in Addiction-Spirituality Research

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dc.contributor.authorSahaya, Selvam
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-01T06:28:53Z
dc.date.available2018-11-01T06:28:53Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThere is an increasing interest in the scientific study of the association between spirituality and recovery from addiction. While most of these studies have provided evidence for a possible relationship, others have explored the underlying mechanisms and meditators in the relationship. However, generally, many studies and reviews have not approached the issue within a specific theoretical framework of mainstream psychology. In an attempt to fill this gap, the review being reported here undertook a Qualitative Systematic Literature Review (QSLR) of addiction-spirituality literature. QSLR is an orderly manner of searching for academic literature, selecting relevant literature following a set of inclusion/exclusion criteria, qualitatively analysing the selected literature, and reporting the findings in such a way as to generate a set of hypotheses. QSLR focusses on literary data, rather than on numerical data as the tradition Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis do. Working within the framework of positive psychology, the present review attempted to identify the character strengths relevant to addiction and recovery by carrying out a QSLR on 53 selected peer-reviewed articles. Among the 24 character strengths, the following emerged as salient: wisdom, integrity, vitality, humility, forgiveness, kindness, love, hope and spirituality. On this basis, a hypothetical conclusion is suggested. Keywords: Qualitative Systematic Literature Review, Character Strengths, Positive Psychology, Addictive Behaviours, Spirituality, Addiction, Spiritualityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/306
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University College/The Qualitative Reporten_US
dc.subjectCharacter Strenghten_US
dc.subjectPositive Psychology’sen_US
dc.subjectSpirituality Researchen_US
dc.titlePositive Psychology’s Character Strengths in Addiction-Spirituality Researchen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Qualitative Systematic Literature Reviewen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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