What is Positive Psychology?

Positive Psychology is the study of what we might call life on the positive side of the zero, where zero is the line that divides illness from health and unhappiness from happiness.  It is all about personal qualities, life circumstances, individual choices, life activities, relationships with others, transcendent purposes, and socio-cultural conditions that foster and define good life.  Positive Psychology, thus is (can be) defined as the scientific study of the personal qualities, life choices, life circumstances and sociocultural conditions that promote a life well-lived, defined by criteria of happiness, physical and mental health, meaningfulness and virtue (Baumgardner and Crothers, 2009)