Positive Forces of Life and Psychological Well-being among Corporate Professionals

In the threshold of the 21^st century, professionals have learned how to enhance positive forces of life like optimism, hopefulness, resilience, efficacy, life satisfaction, happiness, humour, contentment, positive meaning, relaxation in life, religiosity and spirituality etc. so that to become fully developed human being in the phase of setbacks. In this study, an attempt was made to find out the pattern of optimism, life satisfaction and psychological well-being among corporate professionals going under recession. 80 participants were screened in the age range of 20–30 years from upper-middle socio-economic status. It was found that corporate professionals scored average and high on the scales of learned optimism and life satisfaction which in turn resulted into psychological well-being even in the time of recession. Thus creating an environment to remain healthy, emotive and productive, one has to be optimistic for future success.