For the research project, the question we were asked: Can the “three good things” gratitude process have a positive impact on my well-being? After reading over this question, I started by learning about positive psychology and its effects on well-being. I also watched Martin Seligman’s Ted Talk on positive psychology. Watching the founder of positive psychology talk about well-being and positive psychology was helpful. Also listening to someone talk about the topic rather than reading made me pay attention more to the details.
Over the past couple weeks, I tested a process of “three good things”. For this project, I wrote down three positive things that happened to me daily. This process tested if positive psychology could improve my well-being. After doing this for a week, I felt as if writing down the moments was a drag and a chore and I didn’t have much interest in it. Next, I analyzed the journal entries using PERMA: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment. I read every entry and applied the PERMA model to each entry. Even though I thought the daily journal entries were a drag, I discovered in my PERMA analysis that family was very important to me. When I am with my family, I am happiest. So spending time with my family overall makes me happier which is beneficial to my well-being. I think doing the “three good things” journal entries did help giving me data for my research process. For starting my research paper, I have almost all of the information I need to start writing my paper. I am ready to start my introduction. For the literature review, I had to answer seven questions talking about positive psychology, gratitude, and well-being. I answered these questions in class but I want to further develop my answers for a more clear understanding. After doing this, I can write the paper having all of the information I need.
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11/12/2018 07:35:00 pm
I find it so interesting to see other perceptions to this assignment and I liked how you said that writing the "Three Good Things" was like a chore. I thought it would be a chore too until I got into doing it everyday.
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