Editing Positive psychology (section)

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While flow can be beneficial to students, students who experience flow can become overly focused on a particular task. This can lead to students neglecting other important aspects of their learning.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Flourish: a visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being |journal=Choice Reviews Online |date=August 2011 |volume=48 |issue=12 |pages=48–7217–48-7217 |doi=10.5860/choice.48-7217 |doi-broken-date=1 February 2025 |ref={{sfnref|American Library Association|2011}} }}</ref>

In positive psychology there can be misunderstandings on what clinicians and people define as positive. In certain instances, positive qualities, such as optimism, can be detrimental to health, and therefore appear as a negative quality.<ref name=LomasIvtzan2016>{{cite journal |last1=Lomas |first1=Tim |last2=Ivtzan |first2=Itai |title=Second Wave Positive Psychology: Exploring the Positive–Negative Dialectics of Wellbeing |journal=Journal of Happiness Studies |date=August 2016 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=1753–1768 |doi=10.1007/s10902-015-9668-y |url=http://roar.uel.ac.uk/4383/1/Lomas%20and%20Ivtzan%20%282015%29%20-%20Second%20wave%20positive%20psychology%20%28uploadable%29.pdf }}</ref> Alternatively, negative processes, such as anxiety, can be conducive to health and stability and thus would appear as positive qualities.{{r|LomasIvtzan2016}} A second wave of positive psychology has further identified and characterized "positive" and "negative" complexes through the use of critical and dialectical thinking.{{r|LomasIvtzan2016}} Researchers in 2016 chose to identify these characteristics via two complexes: post-traumatic growth and love as well as optimism vs. pessimism.{{r|LomasIvtzan2016}}