Psychology Question

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Psychology Question

Write a 3–5 page paper reflecting on what you learned when completing a measurement related to well-being and consider how it applies to life.

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Introduction

Positive psychology explains that a person's well-being can be described on a continuum from floundering at low levels of well-being to languishing at moderate levels of well-being, to flourishingby experiencing high levels of well-being. The goal of most psychotherapy is to help people with symptoms of floundering to move up to the less symptomatic and less painful level of languishing. The goal of positive psychology is to help people flourish, not just flounder or languish.

How are you? When asked, most people say "fine" or something similar without even thinking about it. But what if someone really asked you. How would you answer? Happiness and well-being are complex concepts that have different components to them. You might be happy about the promotion you received, but sad about the argument you had with your sister. You might be happy the week you are on vacation and a little sad when you return to your routine. Measurements, such as the Positivity Ratio Assessment and the Satisfaction With Life Scale, help you think about your well-being and happiness across different areas of your life or across time.

In this assessment, you will reflect on what you learned when completing one of these measurements and how it applies to life. You will also consider the characteristics and value of recruiting different types of sources to support your work.

Preparation

Choose and complete one of the following activities from Section 1 of the Positive Psychology Activities media related to happiness and well-being to focus on for this assessment.
- 1.1 Positivity Ratio Assessment.
- 1.2 Satisfaction With Life Scale.
- 1.3 Flourishing Scale.
Locate one peer-reviewed journal article in the Capella University Library related to the positive psychology concept of happiness or well-being.

Instructions

Write a 3–5 page paper on happiness and well-being. Organize your paper using the following headings to ensure that you address each assessment element.

Happiness and well-being activity (0.5–1 page).
- Explain the positive psychology concept of happiness and/or well-being.
- Describe the activity you completed and the results.
- Note: Include evidence from a source for support.
Peer-reviewed journal article (2–3 pages).
- Summarize the peer-reviewed journal article you found.
- Compare the findings in the peer-reviewed journal article to the information on similar concepts in your textbook.
- Describe the characteristics of peer-reviewed journal articles compared to your textbook.
- Describe the value of peer-reviewed journal articles and textbooks.
- Explain how sociocultural factors may have influenced the authors of your peer-reviewed journal article.
Conclusion (0.5–1 page).
- Analyze the strengths of positive psychology.

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is in professional style with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Resources: Use a minimum of two sources: your textbook and one peer-reviewed journal article from the Capella library.
APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting. Refer to Academic Writer for guidance in using the proper APA style. See the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for instructions on accessing and using Academic Writer.
Length: 3–5 typed, double spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the strengths and limitations of positive psychology.
- Explain the positive psychology concept of happiness or well-being.
- Describe the activity you completed and the results.
- Analyze the strengths of positive psychology.
Competency 2: Apply psychology information literacy.
- Summarize the peer-reviewed journal article.
- Compare the findings in the peer-reviewed journal article to the information in the textbook.
- Describe the characteristics and value of peer-reviewed journal articles compared to your textbook.
Competency 5: Predict how sociocultural and global factors influence how scientists think about behavioral and mental processes.
- Explain how sociocultural factors influenced the authors of the peer-reviewed journal article.
Competency 6: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
- Use APA style paper formatting with only minor errors.
- Use APA style formatting for citations and reference list with only minor errors.
- Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Positive Psychology Activities

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1. The Elements of Well-Being

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1.1 Positivity Ratio Assessment

Visit site (https://www.positivityratio.com/)

Description

Click the link to go to the Positivity Ratio Assessment website and complete Barbara Fredrickson's "two minute" 20-item online assessment of the intensity of several groups of emotions you may have felt over the last 24 hours. Submit your answers, then a half-page report is produced showing your positivity score, your negativity score and your positivity ratio (positive score divided by your negative score) for the last day. For example, if your positivity score was 9 and your negativity score was 2, then your positivity ratio would be 4.5.

Fredrickson's research suggests that people whose positivity ratio is 3.0 or higher are flourishing while those with ratios below 3.0 (80% of U.S. adults) may be languishing or worse. Because this assesses your emotions for only the last 24 hours, more meaningful results can be obtained by completing this assessment on several days and looking for emotional trends or the impact of significant events in your life.

Reflection Guidelines

After reviewing the results of your Positivity Ratio Assessment, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Happiness and Well-Being Reflection Paper.

How was this activity meaningful to me?
Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?

1.2 Satisfaction With Life Scale

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Description

Click the link to go to directly to Ed Diener's popular assessment containing 5 simple statements on which you rate your present agreement using a scale from 1 to 7. Total the points given for all 5 statements. To understand the meaning of your score, review Understanding Scores on the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Because this assessment is a "snapshot" of your present overall life satisfaction, more meaningful results can be obtained by completing this assessment on several days and looking for emotional trends or the impact of significant events in your life.

Reflection Guidelines

After reviewing the results of your Satisfaction With Life Scale, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Happiness and Well-Being Reflection Paper.

Do I feel the assessment adequately and accurately gave me input on my present life satisfaction?
How was this activity meaningful to me?
Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?

1.3 Flourishing Scale

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Description

Click the link to go to Ed Diener's brief assessment that asks you to rate your level of agreement with 8 statements using a 7-point scale. Total your ratings to get a final score (between 8 and 56) and then compare your score with those of other college students on page 149 of the journal article New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings. For example, if your total score was 48, that put you in the 70th percentile, meaning you scored higher than 70% of other college students who completed the assessment.

Reflection Guidelines

After reviewing the results of your Flourishing Scale, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Happiness and Well-Being Reflection Paper.

How was this activity meaningful to me?
Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
2. Wisdom and Knowledge: Creativity, Curiosity, Judgment, Love of Learning, Perspective
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2.1 VIA Survey of Character Strengths
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Description
Click the link to go to the VIA Institute on Character where you can quickly register for free and gain access to the VIA Survey of Character Strengths. Once registered, complete the assessment in about 10 minutes. A free report is then produced showing your strengths in rank order. More in-depth reports are available for purchase.
Reflection Guidelines
After reviewing the results of your VIA Survey, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it will help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
- Do I feel the assessment adequately and accurately gave me input on my character strengths?
- What one thing did I find most surprising?
- How was this activity meaningful to me?
- Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
- What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
- How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
2.2 Advice from Your Inner Sagefrom Ben-Shahar, 2007, p. 149
Description
For this activity, complete the exercise described on page 149 of the Ben-Shahar ebook Happier which is available from the Capella library.
Reflection Guidelines
After completing the Advice from Your Inner Sage activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
- Which of the five character strengths under the virtue of wisdom and knowledge does this activity address?
- How was this activity meaningful to me?
- Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
- What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
- How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
2.3 Curiosity Activity
Description
For this activity, consider the following questions and record your thoughts (reflections) and any insights learned from the activity:
1. What would life be like without the experience of curiosity? How would it affect learning, personal growth, relationships, innovation, or searching for meaning in life?
2. How can anxiety or fear of the unknown prevent us from being curious?
3. If you made a conscious decision to practice being more curious about anything that interested you in life, how might that benefit you? What makes curiosity a character strength?
Reflection Guidelines
After completing the Curiosity Activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
- How was this activity meaningful to me?
- Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
- What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
- How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
2.4 Creative Thinking Activity
Description
For this activity, consider the following questions and record your thoughts (reflections), your best guess at the answers, and any insights about yourself that you learned from the activity:
1. Married: A man who lived in a small town in the United States married 20 different women of the same town. All are still living, and he never divorced any of them. In this town polygamy is unlawful; yet he has broken no law. How is this possible?
2. Magician: A magician claimed to be able to throw a ping pong ball so that is would go a short distance, come to a dead stop, and then reverse itself. He also added that he would not bounce the ball against any object or tie anything to it. How could he perform this feat?
3. Calendars: Calendars made in England do not show Lincoln's birthday. Do these calendars show the fourth of July? Explain.
4. Unlisted: There is a town in Northern Ontario where 5% of all the people living in the town have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how many of these people selected would have unlisted phone numbers?
5. Safari: While on safari in the wild jungles of Africa, Professor White woke one morning and felt something in the back pocket of her shorts. It had a head and a tail but no legs. When White got up she could feel it move inside her pocket. White however showed little concern and went about her morning rituals. Why such a casual attitude toward the thing in her pocket?
Reflection Guidelines
After completing the Creative Thinking Activity, you may locate the answers to the questions by searching for the items on this list of creative questions: Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges.(https://www.behance.net/blog/test-your-creativity-5-classic-creative-challenges) Review your results and then consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
- How was this activity meaningful to me?
- Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
- What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
- What can I incorporate from this activity into my personal or professional life?
  3. Courage: Bravery, Perseverance, Honesty, Zest
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  3.1 Courage Activity
  Description
  For this activity, consider the following questions and record your thoughts (reflections) and any insights learned from the activity:
  1. Describe a time you acted courageously.
  2. How was it courageous (physically, psychologically, or morally)?
  3. What were you thinking or how were you feeling at the time?
  4. Describe what led up to your actions, the action itself, and the outcome of your actions.
  Reflection Guidelines
  After completing the Courage Activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
  - How was this activity meaningful to me?
  - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
  - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
  - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
  3.2 Zest Activity
  Description
  For the next week, select any new physical activity or sport, social contact, or challenging task or work to add to your daily routine. Complete a schedule so that you do not overlook or forget to complete this new "extra" activity in your daily life for the next week. Monitor how adding this activity to your life affects your mood, your sense of well-being, or if it adds any zest to your life over the course of the week.
  Reflection Guidelines
  After reviewing the results of this Zest Activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
  - How was this activity meaningful to me?
  - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
  - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
  - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
  3.3 Honesty Activity
  Description
  For this activity, consider the following questions and record your thoughts (reflections) and any insights learned from the activity:
  1. Describe a time when it was very difficult but you spoke or represented yourself honestly, sincerely and with integrity.
  2. What thoughts or feelings did you have that made being honest difficult for you in this situation?
  3. Describe what led up to your actions, the action itself, and the outcome of your actions.
  4. How was your character strength of honesty strengthened by this experience?
  Reflection Guidelines
  After completing the Honesty Activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
  - How was this activity meaningful to me?
  - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
  - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
  - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
    4. Humanity: Love, Kindness, Social Intelligence
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    4.1 Sentence Completion
    from Ben-Shahar, 2007, p. 61
    Description
    For this activity, complete the exercise described on page 61 of the Ben-Shahar ebook Happier which is available from the Capella library.
    Reflection Guidelines
    After completing the Sentence Completion activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
    - How was this activity meaningful to me?
    - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
    - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
    - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
    4.2 Compassionate Love ScaleVisit site (https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/home)
    Description
    Click the link to go to the Authentic Happiness website where you can quickly register for free and gain access to numerous positive psychology assessments under the Questionnaires category of the site. Once registered, complete the brief Compassionate Love Scale assessment in about 5 minutes. A 1-page report is then produced showing how your responses compare to others of your age group, gender, occupation group and educational level with respect to your tendency to support, help, and understand other people.
    Reflection Guidelines
    After reviewing the results of your Compassionate Love Scale activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
    - Do I feel the assessment adequately and accurately gave me input on my tendency to be compassionate?
    - What one thing did I find most surprising?
    - How was this activity meaningful to me?
    - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
    - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
    - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
    4.3 Close Relationships QuestionnaireVisit site Authentic Happiness website
    Description
    Click the link to go to the Authentic Happiness website where you can quickly register for free and gain access to numerous positive psychology assessments under the Questionnaires category of the site. Once registered, complete the brief Close Relationships Questionnaire in about 5 minutes. A 2-page report is then produced showing how your responses compare to others of your age group, gender, occupation group and educational level with respect to your attachment style in close relationships.
    Reflection Guidelines
    After reviewing the results of your Close Relationships Questionnaire activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
    - Do I feel the assessment adequately and accurately gave me input on my comfort being close to others?
    - What one thing did I find most surprising?
    - How was this activity meaningful to me?
    - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
    - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
    - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life?
    4.4 Drive-By Flowering
    Description
    Either alone or with a friend gather some wildflowers from fields in your area and then drive to the homes of family, friends, teachers and others that you know and anonymously place a flower under their windshield wiper or in front of their doorway. These random acts of kindness are best done without anyone else knowing so you are not affected by the response from those to whom you were kind.
    Reflection Guidelines
    After completing this Drive-By Flowering act of kindness activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Wisdom, Courage, and Humanity Reflection Paper.
    - What one thing did I find most surprising?
    - How was this activity meaningful to me?
    - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
    - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
    - What can I incorporate from this activity into my personal or professional life?
    - 5. Justice: Teamwork, Fairness, Leadership
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      5.1 Loyola Generativity Scale
      Visit site (https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/loyola-generativity-scale-lgs/#google_vignette)
      Description
      Click the link to go to the Foley Center at Northwestern University and complete the 20 item self-report scale. The Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS) assesses differences in generative concern which include the concern for passing on skills and knowledge to others, contributing to the betterment of community, leaving a legacy, and nurturing others. These character strengths of citizenship, social responsibility and leadership fall under the virtue of justice. When you have completed the inventory, click the link Scoring the LGS ?(https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/loyola-generativity-scale-lgs/) for a brief interpretation of your score.
      Reflection Guidelines
      After reviewing the results of your Loyola Generativity Scale, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
      - How was this activity meaningful to me?
      - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
      - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
      - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
      5.2 Leadership Self-Assessment
      Description
      Review the results from your VIA Survey of Character Strengths.
      - Are the character strengths associated with the virtue of justice (teamwork, fairness, leadership) among your top signature strengths?
      - When have you used the character strengths of teamwork, fairness or leadership in the past?
      - When you think of a time when you were functioning at your best in a work-related setting (school, work, church-related work function), how were you using teamwork, fairness or leadership?
      - When you think about a time when you were anxious, depressed or very stressed in a school or work-related setting, how did you use the character strengths of teamwork, fairness or leadership to move forward?
      Reflection Guidelines
      After completing the Leadership Self-Assessment activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
      - How was this activity meaningful to me?
      - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
      - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
      - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
        6. Temperance: Forgiveness, Humility, Prudence, Self-Regulation
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        6.1 Heartland Forgiveness Scale
        Visit site (https://www.heartlandforgiveness.com/)
        Description
        Click the link to go to the Heartland Forgiveness Scale where you can complete the 18 item questionnaire on your general tendency to be forgiving of yourself, others, and situations. When you complete your answers, hit the Submit button and your scores will be revealed on a new page. Print out or record your scores before leaving the Results page.
        Reflection Guidelines
        After reviewing the results of your Heartland Forgiveness Scale, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
        Do I feel the assessment adequately and accurately gave me input on my ability to forgive?
        What one thing did I find most surprising?
        How was this activity meaningful to me?
        Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
        What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
        How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
        6.2 Conflict Resolutionfrom Ben-Shahar, 2007, p. 163
        Description
        For this activity, complete the exercise described on page 163 of the Ben-Shahar ebook Happier which is available from the Capella library.
        Reflection Guidelines
        After completing the Conflict Resolution activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
        How was this activity meaningful to me?
        Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
        What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
        How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
        6.3 Relational Humility ScaleView journal article
        Description
        Click the link to go to the journal article on Relational Humility (Davis, Hook, Worthington, Van Tongeren, Gartner, Jennings & Emmons, 2011). Open the PDF version of the article, and on page 228 of the journal article you will see the 16 items of the Relational Humility Scale along with statistical data on each item.
        Select a person you consider to be very humble. This could be someone you know personally or someone known to you as a celebrity or public figure.
        Rate this person using the items from the Relational Humility Scale (RHS). Scoring is not necessary for this activity.
        After rating the person, consider the following questions:
        How has this person demonstrated humility in words or action?
        Is this person known more for relational humility (respect and empathy for others during conflict, openness to different cultures or worldviews, being socially modest), intellectual humility (having an accurate view of self, not too high or too low), or both?
        In what ways would you want to be more like this person?
        Do you think this person actively tries to be humble, or is the humility just a way of being for them?
        Reflection Guidelines
        After completing the Relational Humility Scale activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
        How was this activity meaningful to me?
        Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Would it be more uncomfortable if you were the person being rated by the RHS? Why or why not?
        What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
        How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
- 7. Transcendence: Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence, Gratitude, Hope, Humor, Spirituality
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  7.1 Adult Hope Scale
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  Description
  Click the link to go to the Adult Hope Scale (AHS) document and complete the 12-item measure of your level of hope. After completing the scale, review the information included in the document that briefly describes the theory and subscales (agency and pathway) presented by the authors of the original research. You may then score your AHS but without norms you cannot compare yourself to others who have taken the assessment. For our purposes, the higher the score, the more hope. Because this assessment is a "snapshot" of your general tendency for hope (dispositional hope), more meaningful results may be obtained by completing this assessment on several occasions and looking for emotional trends or the impact of significant events in your life.
  Reflection Guidelines
  After completing the Adult Hope Scale activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
  - How was this activity meaningful to me?
  - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
  - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
  - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
  Snyder, C. R., Harris, C., Anderson, J. R., Holleran, S. A., Irving, L. M., Sigmon, S. T., et al.(1991). The will and the ways: Development and validation of an individual-differences measure of hope. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 570-585.7.2 How Do You Use Humor?View online assessment
  Description
  Click the link to go to the How Do You Use Humor? Self-assessment scale on the Psychology Today website. This 16-item assessment is based on a more complete assessment from the work of Martin, Puhlik-Doris, Larsen, Gray, & Weir (2003). Complete the 16 items and use the scoring information provided to give perspective to your assessment scores. Review the journal article from which this humor scale was derived for further information.
  Reflection Guidelines
  After completing the How Do You Use Humor? Activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
  - How was this activity meaningful to me?
  - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
  - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
  - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
  Martin, R. A., Puhlik-Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., & Weir, K. (2003). Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 48-75.7.3 Expressing Gratitudefrom Ben-Shahar, 2007, pp. 10-11
  Description
  For this Expressing Gratitude activity, complete the exercise described on pages 10-11 of the Ben-Shahar ebook Happier which is available from the Capella library.
  Reflection Guidelines
  After completing the Expressing Gratitude activity, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
  - How was this activity meaningful to me?
  - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
  - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
  - How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
  7.4 Gratitude SurveyVisit site
  Description
  Click the link to go to the Authentic Happiness website where you can quickly register for free and gain access to numerous positive psychology assessments under the Questionnaires category of the site. Once registered, complete the 6-item Gratitude Survey assessment in about 1-2 minutes. A 1-page report is then produced showing how your responses compare to others of your age group, gender, occupation group and educational level with respect to your sense of gratitude.
  Reflection Guidelines
  After reviewing the results of your Gratitude Survey, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
  - How was this activity meaningful to me?
  - Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
  - What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
  - What can I incorporate from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue
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  - Positive Psychology Activities
  - Positive Psychology Activities.
    - Complete one of the following activities in Section 1 of this media piece. You are encouraged to record your personal reflections (thoughts) and insights (things learned or relearned). These notes will help you complete the assessment.
      - 1.1 Positivity Ratio Assessment.
      - 1.2 Satisfaction With Life Scale.
      - 1.3 Flourishing Scale.
  Introduction to Positive Psychology
  Dr. Martin Seligman established the strength-based discipline of positive psychology in the late 1990s. Positive psychologists operate on the belief that individuals want to achieve more meaningful lives. Individual and societal well-being are core principles of positive psychology. The below resources and chapters provide an overview of foundational concepts in positive psychology.
  - Positive Psychology Panel Discussion.
  - Pedrotti, J. T., Lopez, S. J., McDermott, R. C., & Snyder, C. R. (2025). Positive psychology: The scientific and practical explorations of human strengths (5th ed.). Sage. Available in the courseroom via the VitalSource Bookshelf link. Watch this VitalSource video for further information.
    - Chapter 1, "Welcome to Positive Psychology."
      - This chapter provides an overview of positive psychology, moving from negative to positive, and focusing on balanced human functioning.
    - Chapter 6, "The Principles of Pleasure."
      - This chapter addresses the affective components of well-being and happiness and introduces scales used to measure elements of well-being.
    - Chapter 7, "Making the Most of Emotional Experiences."
      - This chapter focuses on the emotional experiences related to well-being.
  Culture and Perspective
  Understanding cultural differences is important to understanding one's well-being. What makes one individual happy might be something very different for another person. Individuals' cultural beliefs also influence how they view the world. The below textbook chapters discuss positive psychology dynamics across cultures and life stages.
  - Pedrotti, J. T., Lopez, S. J., McDermott, R. C., & Snyder, C. R. (2025). Positive psychology: The scientific and practical explorations of human strengths (5th ed.). Sage.
    - Chapter 2, "Eastern and Western Perspectives on Positive Psychology."
      - In this chapter, you will learn the differences between individualistic and collectivistic societies and how individuals in each perceive happiness.
    - Chapter 4, "The Role of Culture in Developing Strengths and Living Well."
      - This chapter provides a more in-depth account of the cultural effect on well-being and the importance of understanding culture in relation to the various concepts associated with positive psychology. This chapter illustrates why culture must be considered for each individual.
    - Chapter 5, "Living Well at Every Stage of Life."
      - Life stages also affect well-being. Our beliefs change as we grow older. This chapter addresses well-being across the lifespan.
  Library Research Guide
  You will need to find other resources to prepare for this assessment, and you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The PSYC-FPX4110 – Positive Psychology Library Guide can help direct your research.

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