Lunes 5 de julio

14.00-18.00 Registration

16.00-16.45 Keynote/ Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi "The makes good work in business possible"

16.45-17.15 Coffee break

17.15-19.15 Plenary Round table: Individual Development (Chair Jane Henry)

-Jane Henry: The Relationship between Personal Development Challenge, Personality Type and the Perceived Effectiveness of Different Interventions
-Irit Ben-Avi: The Context Emotional Dependency Scale: reliability, structure and initial validity
-Randy Larsen: Emotional Intelligence and Mood Regulation in the Month Following the September 11, 2001 Attacks in the United States
-Boby Ho-hong Ching: Age Differences in Emotional Experience and Emotion Regulation: The Chinese Experience
-Anat Bardi: Change in Well-Being during a life transition: Interactive effects of Extraversion and Maladaptive Traits
-Daiva Daukantaite: Do girl's Optimistic Evaluations of the Future Predict Their Subjective Well-Being After 35 Years
-Orit Taubmann Ben-Ari: Meaning in Life and Personal Growth - A Terror Management Perspective

19.30 Welcome reception

Martes 6 de julio

8.30-17.00 Registration

8.30-9.15 Keynote/ Dmitry Leontiev "Meaningful living and the function of art"

9.15-10.45 Parallel sessions:

Sala Toscani: VALUES
-Ragna B. Gardasdottir: The Impact of Materialistic Values, Income and Money-Motives on Subjective Well-Being: A comparison between UK and Iceland
-Judita Jankovic: Materialistic Value Components and Subjective Well-Being
-Ljiljana Kaliterna: What Makes Croats Happy? - Predictors of Happiness in Representative Sample
-Keiko Otake: Happy People are More Kind Than Less Happy People

Sala Intra: SOCIAL RELATIONS IN ADOLESCENCE
-Elvira Cicognani: Social Well-Being in Adolescence
-Joel M. Hektner: Developing a Plan to Strengthen Positive Peer Culture Among Native American Adolescents
-Michael J. Horvath: Adolescents Who Value People: Why Are Relationships Important to Them?
-Guna Svence: Using G.Kelly's Repertory Grid Technique for Determining the Schoolchild's Personality's Positive Feeling of Self in School Perceptive Communication

Sala Rotary: EDUCATION
-Helena Marujo: Educating for Optimism: Creating Positive Educational Cultures in a Pessimistic Country
-Toni Noble: A school Curriculum Prevention Program To Develop Resilient Thinking And Behaviour In Students and Teachers
-Nash Popovic: Personal Synthesis Programme - Bringing Psychology to Education
-Irena Corko: The Effect of Promised Reward on the Creativity of the Product

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-12.00 Keynote/ Ursula M. Staudinger "Personality Development and Personality Growth: Are they the Same Thing?"

12.00-13.00 Poster session

14.00-16.00 Parallel sessions:

Sala Toscani: WELL-BEING, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
-Marie P. Wissing: Psychological Well-Being: Identifying a G-factor in Various Cultural Contexts
-Satoshi Shimai: Character Strengths in American and Japanese Young Adults
-Suet Yan Tam: Relationships Between Social Support and Psychological Health of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
-Chrizanne van Eeden: The Psycho-social Well-Being of a Group of South African gay men
-Elaine Duncan: Positive Emotional Experiences in Scottish and Italian Young Adults: Initial Findings, Scientific Issues and the Way Forward
-Dannii Yuen-lan Yeung: Influence of Time Perspective on Chinese Men's and Women's Social Network and Psychological Well-Being

Sala Intra: Symposium: THE DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSMISSION OF GOOD WORK: THE SEARCH FOR MEANING AND MASTERY(Convenor: William Damon, Discussant: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
-William Damon: Good work and leadership in American business and higher education
-Hans H. Knoop: Good work and successful leaders in education, media and business: a positive-psychology view of Leadership
-Jenni Menon: Authentic humility in philanthropists: a positive-psychology view of good giving
-Kendall Cotton Bronk & Anne Colby: Educating professionals for mastery, passion and professionalism
-Jeanne Nakamura: The transmission of good work in science: mentoring and optimal development

Sala Rotary: WELL-BEING, BIOLOGY AND HEALTH
-Joanna McGrath: Post-traumatic Growth in Acquired Brain Injury: A Small Scale Study
-Meena Sehgal: Hope, Resilience and Coping Among Asthmatic Adolescents
-Andrew Steptoe: Psychobiological Correlate of Happiness
-Andreas Burzik: On The Neuropsychology of Flow – Though Provoking Studies from Sport and Music Psychology, Neurofeedback and Trance Research
-Elzabè Peters: Psychological Well-Being and Neuropsychological Correlates
-Montserrat A. Gomez: Optimistic/Pessimistic Explanatory style. Anger Experience and Health Outcomes

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Parallel sessions:

Sala Toscani: COACHING
-Travis J. Kemp: Executive and Leadership Coaching: A unique application of Positive Psychology to Individual Development
-Sandra Foster: Applying Positive Psychology Perspectives and Practices to Individual Business Coaching: Promises and Possibilities
-Anne Scoular: Toward a Positive Psychology of Executive Coaching
-Kit Lam: Managerial Coaching: Behaviors, the Measure and Antecedents
-Michelle K. Pizer: The Positive Impact of High Quality LMX on Career-Related hope

Sala Intra: FAMILY AND DEVELOPMENT
-Elsabè Botha: Childhood Relationships and Adult Psychological Well-Being in African Women
-Taru Feldt: The Role of the family Conditions, Occupational Education and Stable Career Line in the Development of sense of Coherence
-Anna Laura Comunian: Resilience, Parents' Warmth and Children's Moral Judgement Development Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities
-Elena Kaliteyeskaya: Meaning, Adjustment, and Self-Determination in Adolescence

Sala Rotary: Workshop: THE THEORY AND RESEARCH OF MINDFULNESS-BASED MEDITATION PRACTICES AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (M.G.T. Kwee)

18.00-18.45 Keynote/ Felicia Huppert "Positive Ageing"

Miércoles 7 de julio

8.30-17.00 Registration

8.30-9.15 Keynote/ Antonella Delle Fave "Action, Interactions, and Thought: quality of experience and opportunities for development"

9.15-10.45 Parallel sessions:

Sala Toscani: SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
-Nic Marks: Positive Politics - Political Policy Implications of Well-Being
Serdar Degirmencioglu: Young people and action: Processes and benefits of active participation
-Laurie Hollis Walker: Personality dimensions in the nature-human relationship
-Maria Ojala: A positive reappraisal of adolescents' worries about environmental risks: the relations between worry, subjective well-being, values and existential dimensions

Sala Intra: Symposium: OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE IN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ACROSS CULTURES (Convenor G.B. Moneta)
-Kiyoshi Asakawa: The relationship between flow and psychological well-being in Japanese college students
-Teresa Freire: Optimal experiences in Portuguese adolescents: the role of the school context
-Marta Bassi: School curriculum and opportunities for development: a comparative study on optimal experience among Italian adolescents
-Giovanni B. Moneta: Academic ability as a moderator of the flow model of intrinsic motivation in Chinese college students

Sala Rotary:Symposium: TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE (Convenor: Efrain A. Gonzalez, Discussant: Tiziana Zanchi)
-Efrain A. Gonzalez: Introduction and interface between Positive Psychology and Psychoanalytic Theory
-Margaret M. Mustelier: Comparisons of Positive Psychology and Psychoanalytic theory
-Linnette Calle-Castillo: Contributions to Positive Psychology and Psychoanalytic Behavioral Therapy in a behavioral medicine setting
-Tiziana Zanchi: Overview and discussion

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-12.00 Keynote/ Ruut Veenhoven "Is life getting better? Livability of modern society"

12.00-13.00 Poster session

14.00-16.00 Parallel sessions:

Sala Toscani: ROUND TABLE: WELL-BEING CENTERED APPROACHES TO MENTAL HEALTH
-George Vaillant: Positive Mental Health
-Chris Mace: Long-term Impacts of Mindfulness Practice on Wellbeing
-M.Elena Magrin: The Power of Meaning: a Salutogenic Model of Intervention
-Stephen Joseph: Positive Therapy: where Positive Psychology and Psychotherapy Meet
-Christina Seryanni: Exploring the Relationship between Positive Affect & the Development of the Therapeutic Alliance
-Gian Franco Goldwurm: Subjective Well-Being Training to Increase Happiness
-Gordon Spence: Evidence-Based Life Coaching: Positive Psychology In Action

Sala Intra: EFFICACY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN WORK
-Llorens Gumbau: Positive Spiral of Task Resources, Efficacy beliefs and Task Engagement: an experimental and longitudinal study
-J.H. Buitendach: The Relationship Between Job Insecurity and Psychological strengths of Services Workers in Parastatal
-Jari Hakanen: Do Job Resources Mitigate the Effect of Job Demands on Work Engagement?
-Despoina Xanthopulou: The Measurement of Work Engagement: A Comparison of Greece and The Netherlands
-Sanet Coetzee: Sense of Coherence, Self-efficacy, Locus of Control and the Effectiveness of Members of Self-managing Work Teams in South Africa
-Angel Barrasa: Flow of Knowledge in Work Groups: Implications for Effective Teamwork
-Karina Mostert: Work engagement in nursing support staff in South Africa

Sala Rotary: THEORIES AND METHODS
-James Pawelski: Positive Psychology, European Philosophy, and the Genealogy of Habit
-David Schuldberg: Complicato ma non troppo: A small nonlinear model and the good life
-Hilde E. Nafstad: Ideological shifts in society and assumptions in psychology: A challenge for Positive Psychology
-Falko Rheinberg: Motivational Competence and Flow-Experience
-Yogesh Mohan: Spiritual Well-Being: an empirical exploration with spiritual perspectives
-Ilona Boniwell: Use of Time and Well-Being: Methodological Issues

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Parallel sessions:

Sala Toscani: Symposium: TOWARDS A TRULY OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY (Convenors: Wilmar B. Schaufeli & Marisa Salanova)
-Wilmar Schaufeli: From burnout to engagement
-Jari Hakanen: Sense of coherence – a stable individual salutary resource
-Marisa Salanova: The positive spiral of Efficacy beliefs
-Arnold Bakker: Flow at work
-Ian Rothman: Resilience in organizations

Sala Intra: Symposium: SPIRITUALITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF WELL-BEING (Convenors: Jane Henry and Krishna Mohan, Discussant: Kiran Kumar)
-Kiran Kumar: The role of spirituality in attaining well-being: an Indian approach
-Dirk van Direndonck: What makes for the best life? Spirituality as a basic psychological need
-Krishna Mohan: Spirituality and well-being: research, perspectives and implications for Positive Psychology
-Maurits G.T. Kwee & Marja K. Taams: Bringing Buddhist psychology and Positive Psychology in the quest for well-being

Sala Rotary: PARENTHOOD
-Evangelia Demerouti: Spillover and Crossover of Exhaustion and Life Satisfaction among Dual-earner Couples
-John Haworth: Gender, Parenthood and the changing European Workplace: young adults negotiating the work-family boundary
-Liora Findler: A Longitudinal Examination of Mothers' Positive Growth Following the Birth of Twins
-Maria F. Perloiro: Optimism, Pessimism, Marital Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction in Portuguese Families

18.00-18.45 Keynote/ Barbara Fredrickson "The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology"

Jueves 8 de julio

8.30 - 10.30 Parallel sessions:

Sala Toscani: INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS AT WORK
-Debra Panipucci: Positive Disobedience: When Norms Prescribe the Exclusion of Dissimilar Others
-Daiga Kamerade: Does Teleworking Contribute to the Likelihood of Community Participation or Social Isolation?
-Leslie Sekerka: Moral Courage in the Workplace: Self-regulation as the Cornerstone to Virtuous Action
-Arie Shirom: Conceptualizing Vigor: On the Antecedents and Consequences of Vigor as a Positive Affect at Work
-Grayna Bartkowiak: Subjective and objective determinants of professional success in the representatives of certain freelance jobs in Poland and in France
-Douglas May: The flourishing of the Human Spirit at Work: Toward an Understanding of the Determinants and Outcomes of Experienced Meaningfulness (Private) at Work

Sala Intra: LEARNING
-Sarala Devi: Impact of Achievement Motivation on Personality and Academic Among Students
-Charles Martin-krumm: Explanatory Style and Effects of Perceived Ability on Performances during Physical Education Classes
-Laura Gariboldi: Intrinsic Motivation and Psychological Selection in the Transition to University
-E.Breso Esteve: Facilitators and Efficacy Beliefs as Antecedents of Engagement among University students: A Cross-Cultural Study
-Andrea Gaggioli: Optimal Experience in Virtual Environments. Implications for learning
-Timo Saari: Using mind-Based Technologies to Facilitate Positive Emotion and Mood with Media Content

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.45 Keynote/ Martin E.P. Seligman "Positive Psychology & Positive InterventionsSeligman"

11.45-12.15 Conclusions