Editorial: Positive Psychology in Everyday Life

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INTRODUCTION
Positive Psychology has been established as a major-based-evidence field of knowledge that aims to understand how people can improve their lives, and ultimately, flourish. Studies have been conducted since Seligman (2016) and Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2014) spearheaded this movement of looking for the positive aspects of life rather than focusing on the negatives.
However, although the focus of studies in the area of positive psychology is on "cultivating positive feelings, behaviors, or cognitions" (Sin and Lyubomirsky, 2009, p. 468), we wonder whether beliefs about improved wellbeing in response to positive psychology interventions do not bias the way we conduct research in this field. Recent studies show that moderators may exist in such situations from both the characteristics of the activities designed in the interventions and those of the research participants. Current research has shown that participation in activities aimed at improving wellbeing positively biases the beliefs of people in the sample (Gander et al., 2022). It is therefore more than likely that respondents will respond positively to tasks in research designs, anticipating their beneficial purpose, engage in behaviors they would not ordinarily engage in, and self-evaluate themselves as more effective than they actually are.
Despite, this growing concern, Positive Psychology has been extensively a target of research which has led, so far, to interesting results. From the benefits of positive psychology interventions in improving wellbeing and diminishing depression, anxiety or stress (Boiler et al., 2013;Carr et al., 2020), to contributing to employees' performance and productivity (Kour et al., 2019), to reducing distress in people diagnosed with clinical disorders (Chakhsii et al., 2018), or even promoting resilience and hope through specific interventions in schools settings (Platt et al., 2020). Positive psychology practices have constructive impacts on people's everyday lives such as reducing stress and anxiety, increasing resilience and promoting self-growth, wellbeing, and quality of life. This happens among different cultures, populations, contexts, and fields of knowledge, similar to the results emphasized by current meta-analyses (Koydemir et al., 2021;van Agteren et al., 2021).
Positive psychology has undeniably been a "breath of fresh air" in promoting flourishing rather than focusing only on remediation. Thus, this and other concerns most intensely discussed by each of us today are found in the themes addressed by the research on this topic. It was this diversity of results, doubts, and dispersion along with different fields of knowledge that inspire this Research Topic. The aim of this Research Topic and e-book was to explore this possible "fragmentation" of Positive Psychology and how it can lead to more dispersion or instead lead to a more unified field.

CONTRIBUTIONS OF THIS RESEARCH TOPIC
In this Research Topic, articles were collected that highlighted the close connection between the 3 pillars of positive psychology (Seligman et al., 2009). We observed how different positive experiences, lived in various institutional settings, can contribute to the development of personality traits. Although this Research Topic appears to be an eclectic collection of research, in fact, Positive Psychology in Everyday Life reflects the multiple dimensions of the urban quotidian from an integrative perspective.
With an international editorial team of researchers specializing in Positive Psychology, this Research Topic has attracted more than 35 publications from 134 authors from around the world on different aspects of the topic. This Research Topic includes studies from 19 countries: Portugal, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Poland, Romania, USA, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Brunei. Therefore, we are proud to bring together the most current theory and practice regarding positive psychology across disciplines, such as Wellbeing, Education, Tourism, Social and Organizational settings, Special needs, and Positive Psychology in multidisciplinary fields, including communication, multiculturalism, psychometrics, and cross-cultural studies.
These studies include cutting-edge ideas and research that explore multidisciplinary approaches to positive psychology in daily life and how these can contribute to reshaping the field or moving into a new "wave" of positive psychology. All studies main goals are summarized in Table 1.
The articles in this Research Topic focused on a wide variety of populations across the lifespan and included those suffering from psychological/mental problems as well as healthy children and adults. The studies were conducted in a variety of settings-schools, universities, residential care, business, tourism, and in the community-suggesting that positive psychology interventions can be done anytime and anywhere and included both short-term and long-term interventions. Beyond this, the research included in this topic has covered a wide range of methodologies, from experimental and correlational studies to systematic and comprehensive reviews. There have also been several articles that focused on participants' experiences. However, from this diversity 6 big clusters of topics also emerged.

Positive Education
One of the education studies explores the influence of parental emotional warmth on 893 college students' altruistic behavior in the virtual environment, as well as, and the mediating roles of personal belief in a just world and positive moral personality traits (Zhang et al.). The study by Mieres-Chacaltana et al. showed a positive relationship between prosocialness and happiness in a sample of 224 students and teachers. In positive psychology, spirituality is an important variable, but often an overlooked aspect of the self that may affect college students' wellbeing and belonging. The study by Gilbertson et al. examined closeness to God and spiritual struggles as predictors of first-year college students' wellbeing. Other research investigated a conceptual model by testing flow experience and subjective wellbeing of 1.109 university students during COVID-19 considering their underlying academic self-efficacy and self-esteem (Wu et al.). In another interesting research, the relationship between psychological capital profiles and internal learning in teams was analyzed. The student profile with the highest scores in self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience exhibited also the highest scores of internal learning in teams; there was no significant relationship between the profile with a positive combination between self-efficacy and hope and the profile that presents the optimism as the only positive psychological capability (Geremias et al.). Similarly, Dolan and Henwood examined how narratives provide simple rules about how we might live and what our decision-making priorities ought to be. Chen, Bao et al. showed the positive effects of Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Self-Efficacy on Proactive Personality and Academic Engagement with 549 children. In another spectrum of positive education, parents' emotional management was highly required during the COVID-19 lockdown, juggling their job as it moved online with being a parent of a child whose school was online and that proved to be a challenge for many (Henter and Nastasa). The authors also investigated the participants' level of flourishing, as these changes impacted differently on every parent's wellbeing. The analysis of the data provided us with the opportunity to make a series of recommendations for parents' wellbeing in such a situation, as the prospect of continuing to work and learn online in the future seems very real. The need to set clear boundaries between the roles played in these settings emerged as the main objective of future therapeutic interventions based on positive psychology.

Quality of Life of Special Needs and Vulnerable Populations
The Research Topics also gathered a cluster of articles that focused on the benefits of positive psychology approaches with vulnerable and special needs populations, where there was a strong emphasis on improving the social and emotional wellbeing and quality of life. Thus, Jones and Drummond did a summary of current findings on quality of life and wellbeing domains and a proposal for their inclusion in clinical interventions. Also, Fratczak-Müller investigated the efficacy of implementing a positive social housing program in increasing the quality of life of vulnerable people. Likewise, Calheiros et al. analyzed youth in residential care, through a cross-sectional mediation analysis of youth's perceptions of their social images, self-representations, and adjustment outcomes. The results emphasize the relevance of stimulating positive SR, by showing that they can be a protective factor for youth in residential care. In another study Wang et al. explored the influence of patient activation (PA) and relational aspects on the quality of life (QoL) in patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) for developing measures to improve PA and QoL. Park investigated individuals with adventitious visual impairment acquired during adulthood through a traumatic event, for an in-depth and contextual understanding of the factors and processes that led to positive changes in their life. Another research from Mahmic et al. The study aimed to examine the relationship between the subjective exercise experience of participating in square dance and group cohesion and whether some variables (e.g., age, education, duration, income level, and work) play a role as mediators in the association with subjective exercise experience and group cohesion. The study aims to investigate a conceptual model by testing flow experience of university students and their subjective wellbeing relation via considering the underlying mechanisms of academic self-efficacy and self-esteem within such a relationship.

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Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org This study aimed to analyze the indirect associations between residential care youth's MR and their psychological adjustment (i.e., externalizing and internalizing problems) through their self-representations (SR) and test the moderating role of youth's age and residential unit size in those associations.

Prosocialness and Happiness in Chilean Student Teachers
The aim of the study was to evaluate the relation between prosocialness and happiness in a sample of student teachers In this study, accommodation and capitalization, were explored concurrently to disentangle the unique associations and influence on relationship satisfaction. The study also sought to understand the moderating effects of culture in terms of interdependent self-construal on the link between these two communication processes and relationship satisfaction. This study aims to evaluate the effects of an intervention geared toward teaching life skills through sport to youngsters who had been committed.
Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org showed the efficacy of a System of a positive psychology approach to identify and shift disempowering paradigms for families of children with disability. Finally, the article of Czyzowska and Gurba showed that strengthening the sense of meaning in life and psychological wellbeing brings benefits for mental health to a group of young adults particularly vulnerable to mental problems.

Social and Organizational Positive Psychology
In the field of social and organizational psychology, several studies showed the benefits of the use of positive psychology "personality" in everyday work life. The role of geographical area and entrepreneurs' personality by Yurrebaso et al.

Psychometric Research
The need for measures with good psychometric proprieties was also seen in the two studies that focused on psychometric research. One of the studies focused on the validation of the French Version of the Positive Scale (Vancappel et al.), a selfreport measure of positivity, which is the tendency to view and address life and experience with a positive approach. The other was an adaptation of the Chinese version of the Basic Empathy Scale, with a sample of 805 college students (Chen, Dou et al.). This study showed that emotion and empathy have a significant correlation with gratitude and altruism online. showed that a positive and resilient approach to dealing with the adverse outcomes of the pandemic is a concern for stakeholders and the future of the organizations in the tourism and hospitality sector, as is tourists' wellbeing. Other research explored the effect of place attachment on overseas students' tourism ambassador behavior: a mediation role of life satisfaction, as a hotspot in positive psychology in recent years (Wang et al.).

Sports and Arts
Overall, while this strong and evidence-based body of knowledge and studies about positive psychology is a major enabler in advancing the research in this field and bringing practical tools and insights for improving peoples' everyday lives, these clusters of information provide an equally vast dispersion of research across disciplines. However, at the same time, these clusters show us that Positive Psychology can be part of everyone's daily lives. While a so-called fragmentation can be seen when we think of the multiple fields, techniques, variables and populations that were target of the different studies that compile this Research Topic, in this dispersion we can also see its importance and maybe its unification. Positive Psychology theory and practice are sought ought in every context: education, research (psychometrics), sports, arts, social settings and organizations; by a diversity of people including specific populations such as special needs and in disadvantages situations; with a common ground: improving wellbeing. In this, we can see how the dispersion of themes and interests in research can also be proof that positive psychology is possible in everyday's live, and in so, we can see its potential for a more fulfilling life in every place, culture, context and environment.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, positive psychology and its immeasurable associated variables have been the focus of a large amount of research as perhaps no other so young a science has been to date. Although fragmentation of the field in multiple directions can be seen, this does not undermine the positive benefits of this field, it highlights that today, maybe more than ever, positive psychology is needed in everyone's everyday life.