Proceedings of the Positive Psychology 2.0 International Conference 2025 (PP 2.0 2025)

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All of us are facing an ever-changing world with a lot of life adversities and difficulties. In reality, negative life events and suffering are inevitable to all people, which lead to maladaptive thoughts and behaviors that have harmful impacts on human well-being and mental health. A deepen question of positive psychology 2.0 (PP 2.0) is “What brings out the best in all people in their strivings for survival and flourishing in challenging situations?” The PP 2.0 advocates suggest to fully develop our spirituality (both theistic and non-theistic) to live a meaningful life based on self-transcendence (sacrifice love and serving others). In facing life adversities, spirituality has been found to be an important coping resource that improves adjustment and wellbeing (e.g., Pargament et al., 2001; Tix & Frazier, 1998). Professor Paul Wong (2016) also developed the spiritual self-transcendence model based on Viktor Frankl’s concept, believing that self-transcendence can help people turn suffering into resilience by understanding life adversities as events that provide meaning, life goals, and healthy values. Hence, it is important to explore the ways to cultivate and apply spirituality and self-transcendence to enhance eudemonic well-being and flourishing in facing ever-changing environment and life adversities. Thus, the Positive Psychology (PP 2.0) International Conference 2025 will focus on the theme of  “Positive Psychology 2.0: The Roles of Psychology of Spirituality and Transcendence in Facing Ever-Changing Environment and Life Adversities”, and welcomes paper presentations that share and discuss empirical-baed and evidence-based research, practice, implementation, and applications of PP 2.0.