CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Positive psychology is based on a logical positivist epistemology, emphasizing reductionism and quantitative research methods, whereas humanistic psychology is based on a holistic (subjectivist) epistemology, is antireductionist, and uses mainly qualitative methods (Friedman, 2008) .

Detailed explanation-2: -Humanistic and positive psychology both focus on similar concerns, but have differences regarding methodology and epistemology. In terms of method-ology, humanistic psychologists tend to prefer qualitative over quantitative approaches, whereas positive psychologists tend to hold the opposite prefer-ence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Humanism rejects scientific methodology like experiments and typically uses qualitative research methods. For example, diary accounts, open-ended questionnaires, unstructured interviews and unstructured observations.

Detailed explanation-4: -As such, the person-centered approach is often associated with humanistic psychology. While the relationship between humanistic and positive psychology has been contentious in the past, it is now widely accepted that positive psychology has largely followed in the footsteps of humanistic psychology.

Detailed explanation-5: -The relationship between positive psychology and humanistic psychology has been a strained one. Humanistic psychology shares with positive psychology the key aims of identifying and investigating positive experiences, traits, and institutions, which is how positive psychology was defined broadly.