study of what makes life worth living, or what makes a good life (Cherry, 2016b; Seligman, 2011; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000) According to Boniwell (2012), Europe’s leading researcher and thinker in positive psychology, the roots of positive psychology date to ancient Greek philosophers and the Eastern traditions Eastern religions such as, Hinduism and Buddhism promote emotions like love, compassion, joy, kindness, and mindfulness, or meditation, which are also major areas of research in positive psychology (Boniwell, 2012; Lopez, Pedrotti, & Snyder, 2014) The predecessor of positive psychology is humanism, a movement that started after World War II (Cherry, 2016a; McLeod, 2015; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005) The humanistic psychology movement focused on the growth and positive self of individuals and was a response to more pessimistic pathology-oriented methods popular during that period, including psychoanalysis and behaviorism The most popular humanistic thinkers were Carl Rogers (1902–1987), who developed the concept of a fully functioning human (Rogers, 1961b), and Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), who introduced the notion of self-actualization, the realization of one’s potentials (Maslow, 1965) Over 50 years ago, Maslow addressed the recent themes of positive psychology (Buhler, 1971; Goud, 2008) However, the contemporary academic community considers Seligman the father of positive psychology (Cherry, 2018) In 1998, the American Psychological Association elected Seligman as the president; since then, positive psychology has become a mainstream movement (Boniwell, 2012) Today, positive psychology has gained much popularity It is an active movement with its own 24