Today\u2019s Goals<\/p>\n
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Mini-Review:<\/p>\n
How connected you feel with nature<\/p>\n
Correlates positively with nature relatedness Sustainability<\/p>\n
Recovery following a challenge<\/p>\n
Assumes well-being or good things have decreases – improvement later<\/p>\n
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Heart Attacks<\/p>\n
Galatzer-Levy,I. R., & Bonanno, G. A. (2014). Optimism and death: Predicting the course and consequences of depression trajectories in response to heart attack. Psychological Science, 25, 2177-2188.<\/p>\n
Longitudinal study – information concerning individuals before and after their heart attack What kinds of people do well?<\/p>\n
Items that seem to ‘get at’ optimism<\/p>\n
No specific measure design for this purpose<\/p>\n
Way to understand who is doing well and who is not doing well<\/p>\n
Interesting to see how individuals respond to a heart attack<\/p>\n
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Statistical approach to find groups of people who are similar (similar set of correlations)<\/p>\n
4 different groups of people (data driven)<\/p>\n
Onset of depression post heart attack is what predicted mortality – does not mean causation<\/p>\n
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Prospective Earthquake Studies<\/p>\n
Predicted more stress afterward o More severe experience predicted distress 10 days after o Rumination predicted additional distress<\/p>\n
Correlations between Time 1 and Time 2 were pretty high<\/p>\n
Levels of stability very similar o Small decrease in emotional stability<\/p>\n
Increase in neuroticism – living through an earthquake is not without its issues on individuals<\/p>\n
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Post Traumatic Growth<\/p>\n
Benefit finding<\/p>\n
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Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory<\/p>\n
When things get difficult, people tend to turn to religion or report religion being more important to them<\/p>\n
Prominent ways this experience is assessed<\/p>\n
Attempts to capture common feelings of change<\/p>\n
Retrospective assessment<\/p>\n
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Frazier et al. (2009) Study<\/p>\n
Are measures of PTG valid measures of (actual) growth?<\/p>\n
They appear to be valid measures of peoples perceptions of growth Are people right about how they think they\u2019ve changed? \u2022 A retrospective measure of PTG requires participants to:<\/p>\n
What do you have to do to answer these questions?<\/p>\n
Evaluation of trauma measured through specific (defined) incidences that were asked in a self-report to the participant<\/p>\n
Within the past 2 weeks – reading these on scales of agreement<\/p>\n
How do these describe your past 2 weeks o \u2018\u2018I have had a sense of closeness with others\u2019\u2019 o \u2018\u2018I have had a feeling of self-reliance\u2019\u2019 o \u2018\u2018I have been able to do good things with my life\u2019\u2019 o \u2018\u2018I have appreciated each day\u2019\u2019 o \u2018\u2018I have had a strong religious faith\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
They way people thought they changed was not related to way they actually changed<\/p>\n
Individuals who believe they have changed (perceived growth) associated with more distress – positive correlation Not typically what is found in studies – in this instance<\/p>\n
Change in distress from beginning to end<\/p>\n
Individuals who have changed (actual growth) associated with less distress There was some actual \u2018growth\u2019<\/p>\n
Significant proportion of people reported higher life satisfaction at Time 2 vs. 1<\/p>\n
Most people seemed to have positive experiences during these changes<\/p>\n
If you are appreciating life more – association with less distress<\/p>\n
Hard to estimate<\/p>\n
Mostly female undergraduates<\/p>\n
Not representative of individuals who usually experience higher levels of trauma o Kinds of trauma (?)<\/p>\n
Something bad happening to someone they loved<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s not equivalent to something happening directly to the individuals o Short time frame<\/p>\n
Measured at most, 2 months post trauma<\/p>\n
Sometimes, important findings happen much later on<\/p>\n
More actual events that you can measure – actions of doing\/pursuing<\/p>\n
Notion that some changed in positive ways<\/p>\n
Was this due to the trauma itself, or other variables?<\/p>\n
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Well-Being Project: Final Papers<\/p>\n
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Paper Requirements<\/p>\n
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Some Tips<\/p>\n
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How to reference clearly<\/p>\n
Default assumption is usually an empirical report<\/p>\n
Use your words to clarify o \u201cIn their review of the breakfast literature, Dunken et al. (2008) concluded that muffins…\u201d o Unless a major review paper, better to the have primary, empirical source. (Track it down.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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