How Positive deviance, an aspect of positive psychology, helps students overcome academic stress.
Research Topic: How Positive deviance, an aspect of positive psychology, helps students overcome academic stress.
Positive deviance is an aspect of positive psychology that identifies a specific problem among a group of people and utilizes the success of those individuals, people within that same community or organization, that has overcame those same challenges and implements their success strategies to help those who cannot seem to overcome those struggles. Positive deviant people have unique behaviors or strategies that enable them to adopt better solutions to prevalent problems than their neighbors while having access to the same or less resources. This approach was instrumental in reducing childhood malnutrition in Vietnam from 52% to 6% in the years from 1991 to the 2000s. Between the years of 2005 to 2010, staff from more than 20 hospitals and the largest health care system in the US developed methods which reduced hospital acquired MRSA infections by rates as much as 80% and sustained the improvements. In 2018, women entrepreneurs from Palestine tackled the financial inequality problems and learned from other family members and women just like them on how to generate their own incomes. So how do you determine the seemingly intractable problems? You discover the positive deviants and their way to the solutions. This research paper will analyze how positive deviance can help students overcome adversities in school that lead to increase stress that causes poor academic performance.
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