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Comparing the Effects of Positive Psychology Interventions: Using Gratitude Journaling and Personality Strengths Interventions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Comparing the Effects of Positive Psychology Interventions: Using Gratitude Journaling and Personality Strengths Interventions./
Author:	Ekstrom , Charlotte .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	84 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International82-02.
Subject:	Psychology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28028544
ISBN:	9798662488014

Comparing the Effects of Positive Psychology Interventions: Using Gratitude Journaling and Personality Strengths Interventions.
Ekstrom , Charlotte .

Comparing the Effects of Positive Psychology Interventions: Using Gratitude Journaling and Personality Strengths Interventions. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 84 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02.

Thesis (M.A.)--Webster University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The aim of this study was to compare and ascertain the effectiveness of two positive psychology interventions, personality strengths interventions on the one hand and gratitude interventions on the other. The goal was to find out which one is more effective in increasing feelings of happiness and reducing feelings of stress, anxiety and low moods. The outcome of the study is that while personality strengths interventions decrease feelings of stress, anxiety and low moods more than gratitude interventions, neither of the interventions showed any effect on subjective well-being. The participants were divided into three groups, group one was instructed to do gratitude activities, group two was instructed to do positive psychology interventions based on their top three personality strengths and group three acted as a control group and did not receive any intervention. The study took place during rather extreme circumstances when most of Europe was experiencing a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic which was a major confounding variable. It was carried out over the course of 14 days with participants instructed to spend 20 minutes a day on the exercises in the experimental groups. 57 people started the study and 45 completed it. A between-group experimental design using factorial ANOVAS to analyse the results was used. To measure the participants' stress levels the Perceived Stress (PSS) as well as the stress scale from the Depression, Anxiety and Stress inventory (DASS-42) were used. Participants' low moods were measured using the depression and anxiety scales in the DASS-42. To measure participants levels of well-being the Authentic Happiness Inventory (AHI) was used and to identify participants' character strengths the VIA Character Strengths Survey was used. The standardised tests measuring participants' stress, anxiety, low moods and subjective happiness were measured prior to starting the experiment and measured again on the last and 14th day of study.

ISBN: 9798662488014Subjects--Topical Terms:

519075
Psychology.
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Positive psychology interventions

Comparing the Effects of Positive Psychology Interventions: Using Gratitude Journaling and Personality Strengths Interventions.
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