Publicación: Psicología positiva y psicología popular de la autoayuda: un romance histórico, psicológico y cultural
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2014-10
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Huertas Martínez, Juan Antonio
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En este trabajo analizamos las semejanzas y las diferencias que existen entre el discurso sobre el sujeto de la psicologia positiva y el de la literatura de autoayuda. Para delimitar nuestro objeto de estudio definimos un conjunto de categorias y subcategorias psicologicas, al cual hemos de-nominado individualismo "positivo" y cuyo analisis cultural e historico hemos desarrollado en otros trabajos. Ademas, comparamos otros factores como el tipo de vocabulario y el tipo de retorica que utilizan uno y otro tipo de literatura para defender sus argumentos. Para llevar a cabo estos analisis utilizamos una metodologia de tipo mixto, en la cual combinamos el uso de la lexicometria, el ANOVA, el analisis de correspondencias y la recupera-cion de palabras en contexto, todo ello combinado con una discusion criti-ca de los textos apoyados en la bibliografia existente. El conjunto de hipo-tesis planteadas en este trabajo postulan que la psicologia positiva y la litera-tura de autoayuda comparten unas raices psicologicas comunes: persiguen el mismo horizonte de bienestar, utilizan conceptos y caracterizaciones psi-cologicas muy parecidas para hablar, describir y explicar al individuo, y desarrollan tecnicas y practicas similares con el fin de que los sujetos actuen sobre si mismos en busca de su propia felicidad. Tambien planteamos que esta comunalidad, sin embargo, no es compartida por otros tipos de psico-logia de objetivos practicos e interventivos similares, como la psicoterapia cognitivo-conductual, tipo de literatura que tambien anadimos a los analisis. Los resultados obtenidos apuntan en la direccion del conjunto de hipotesis planteadas
In this paper, the psychological discourse about the subject pro-vided both by positive psychology and by self-help literature is compared. To specify the object of analysis we define a set of psychological categories and subcategories, to which we have dubbed as "positive" individualism and which cultural and historical back-ground has been analyzed in previ-ous works. Besides these categories, we analyze other aspects such as the kind of vocabulary and the type of rhetoric deployed by both kind of litera-ture to defend their arguments. To carry out these analyses we used a mixed methodology, combining the word-count technique, the ANOVA, the correspondences analysis, and key-words in context. We added a critic discussion of the texts to the data obtained. The hypothesis set out here postulate that both positive psychology and self-help literature share com-mon psychological roots: they defend the same idea of happiness in a similar way psychological concepts in order to describe and explain the individ-ual, and develop analogous psychological practices and techniques aiming to help the individual to search his own well-being. We also postulate that this commonality is not shared by other psychological models, although they have a comparable interventional and practical vein, such as cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, which we also analyze in this paper. The results obtained are congruent with the set of hypothesis here suggested
In this paper, the psychological discourse about the subject pro-vided both by positive psychology and by self-help literature is compared. To specify the object of analysis we define a set of psychological categories and subcategories, to which we have dubbed as "positive" individualism and which cultural and historical back-ground has been analyzed in previ-ous works. Besides these categories, we analyze other aspects such as the kind of vocabulary and the type of rhetoric deployed by both kind of litera-ture to defend their arguments. To carry out these analyses we used a mixed methodology, combining the word-count technique, the ANOVA, the correspondences analysis, and key-words in context. We added a critic discussion of the texts to the data obtained. The hypothesis set out here postulate that both positive psychology and self-help literature share com-mon psychological roots: they defend the same idea of happiness in a similar way psychological concepts in order to describe and explain the individ-ual, and develop analogous psychological practices and techniques aiming to help the individual to search his own well-being. We also postulate that this commonality is not shared by other psychological models, although they have a comparable interventional and practical vein, such as cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, which we also analyze in this paper. The results obtained are congruent with the set of hypothesis here suggested
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psicología positiva, autoayuda, lexicometría, individualismo "positivo", psicología crítica, felicidad, cultura norteamericana, positive psychology, self-help, word-count, "positive" individualism, critical psychology, happiness, north american culture
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Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Huertas Martínez, Juan Antonio. (2014). Positive psychology and self help popular psychology: A historical, psychological and cultural romance. Anales de Psicologia, 30(3). https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.30.3.169241
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Facultad de Filosofía
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