<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sergii Boltivets</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">THE UKRAINIAN GENESIS OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE RESISTANCE TO RUSSIAN AGGRESSION</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">development methodology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feofan Prokopovich</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Georgy Konysky</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grigory Skovoroda</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">happiness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martin Seligman</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mongoloids and Europeans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">positive psychology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">preservation of human life</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">preservation of life</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Russian bombings and shelling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Russian genocide of Ukrainians</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">security</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sources of hope</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">well-being</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">December/2025</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/article?articleId=4751097</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">continuous</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The article presents the methodology for the development of positive psychology among established branches of psychological knowledge. Three main questions of methodology are considered: the first question is to determine what is included in the subject of positive psychology and what remains outside it. The second question is about the ratio of the volume of what is covered by the subject of positive psychology compared to what remains outside it. The answers to the third question are to find out how functional, and therefore self-sufficient for preserving life, the formation of positive psychology is in the conditions of the Russian genocide of Ukrainians in Ukraine: what are the sources of hope for the preservation of human life in the conditions of constant nightly Russian bombing of homes of families with children, daytime artillery shelling, rapes, hangings, drownings, burnings, injuries, shootings of the Ukrainian population in their own homes and during attempts to evacuate from the territories occupied by the Russians. Based on the search for answers to these three methodological questions, the article focuses on the ideas and positions of one of the founders of positive psychology in the USA, Martin Seligman. The article poses the dilemma of coexistence: &quot;Can one species have well-being and happiness against the background or at the expense of other life on our planet?&quot; It is noted that, unlike the European cultural process, psychological thought in Ukraine over the past millennium has developed in a wave-like manner, being directly dependent on the degree of protection or aggressiveness of the geocultural environment structured by various state formations that tried to conquer Ukraine by military means combined with other means of genocide and assimilation. The prototype of the theory of positive psychology is the theory of emotions, created in 1706-1710 by Feofan Prokopovich, which was set out in the fifth book of the textbook &quot;On the Art of Rhetoric&quot; under the title &quot;On the Interpretation of the Affects of the Soul.&quot; Answers to the question of human happiness were developed by Georgy Konysky, Hryhoriy Skovoroda’s teacher at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in his theory of happiness, and by Hryhoriy Skovoroda himself. The article argues that the inevitable conflict between acquisition and creation, plunder and preservation of the results of one’s labor, murder of people and protection of their lives determines the current war between the Mongoloid race, which is concentrated in Russia, and the Europeans, to which Ukrainians and their state Ukraine belong, which has always taken the first blow from the time of the Golden Horde to the present day. At each of these stages of the development of human civilization, which was accompanied by wars, murders, and plunder, the preservation of life was determined by the hope for its preservation and a better future, and therefore – for security, well-being, and happiness. All this determines the ground on which positive psychology arises with its faith and justification of human creative abilities in order to improve existing relationships, living conditions, and happiness.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">22-32</style></section></record></records></xml>