Teaching of Positive Psychology in Argentina: a Bibliometric Study

This historiographic research attempts to promote the knowledge about the incidence of positive psychology in psychology education through a bibliometric study of syllabuses corresponding to courses that belong to the undergraduate program in psychology at four Argentine universities: University of Buenos Aires, University of Palermo, National University of Mar del Plata and National University of San Luis. This paper can be considered an ex postfacto study, according to Montero and Leon's classification (2007). A bibliometric study was carried out analyzing the contents about positive psychology included in the syllabuses courses. At the same time, the bibliographical references were studied according the next variables: the indexed authors, the reference's language, the type of text most quoted and the reference's antiquity. The results allow us to appreciate that while the positive psychology has an increasing impact at the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of Mar del Plata and the National University of San Luis, could be argued that only the University of Palermo has become an institution of privilege in the education of positive psychology in Argentina.