Question description
Positive psychology focuses on three important concepts of the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.
Seligman (2005) purports that experiencing
these three pillars of positive psychology creates “the full-life.”
This assignment focuses on the second pillar: the good life.
According to the positive psychology model,
the good life involves identifying and amplifying unique strengths and
skills. The goal of identifying your signature strengths is to be able
to amplify these strengths in flow experiences.
This assignment is divided into two tasks.
You will first identify your personal signature strengths and then apply
these strengths to transform a tedious activity into an enlivened one.
Task I
What are your top three strengths when you
experience flow? Using the Internet, research various instruments
available that can help you identify your strengths. When conducting
your Internet search, use the following phrases:
Measuring flow experiences
Dimensions of flow
Measuring signature strengths
OCEAN personality psychometric test
The big five test
Trait theory personality test
Five factor model (FFM)
Select one of the instruments from your research and complete the test to determine your strengths. Then do the following:
Evaluate your results and create a list of your personal signature strengths.
If you are unable to use these instruments,
then list what you understand or believe to be your top three strengths
when you experience flow.
Task II
This task requires you to engage in an
activity that you find tedious. While engaging in the activity, tap into
an identified personal strength and enliven the experience. For
example, a student who dislikes the task of commuting to work resolves
to tap into her creativity and sing to her favorite music while driving,
thus transforming the experience from tedious to an enlivened one.
Engage in an activity you consider tedious and then tap into an identified personal strength to enliven it.
Upon completion of this activity, create a PowerPoint presentation with the following information:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Assignment help – Discuss a scholarly reference on the validity of using signature strengths to create flow.
Slide 3: Describe the strengths you identified after doing an evaluation of yourself.
Slides 4–5: Assignment help – Discuss the application of strengths to
the activity. Include your ideas on how and why the activity was
transformed from tedious to an enlivened activity.
Slides 6–7: Demonstrate how to apply this and other signature strengths to transform other tasks identified as tedious.
Slide 8: Assignment help – Discuss your general state of emotion after
completing the enlivened activity. Examine the reasons for this state
of emotion. Include one scholarly reference from established research on
positive psychology that supports the use of signature strengths to
facilitate a state of well-being.
Slide 9: Assignment help – Discuss how recognizing and using signature strengths can help improve relationships.
Slide 10: Provide a list of references in Help write my thesis – APA format
Develop a 10-slide scripted presentation in
PowerPoint format. Apply Help write my thesis – APA standards to citation of sources. Use the
following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.ppt.
By Wednesday, June 8, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Duckworth, A. L., Steen, T. A., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2005). Positive psychology in clinical practice. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 629–651. (ProQuest Document ID: 213100604)
http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/
docview/213100604?accountid=34899
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Examined the validity of using signature strengths to create flow using one scholarly reference.
12
Described the personal signature strengths.
8
Explained how the
strengths were applied to the activity with an analysis of why the
activity was transformed from being tedious to an enlivened one.
16
Gave details about how the signature strengths can be applied to other tedious tasks.
16
Analyzed the reasons for
the general state of emotion after completing the enlivened activity,
supporting it with at least one scholarly reference.
16
Explained the application of recognizing and using signature strengths to improve relationships.
12
Wrote in a clear, concise,
and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate
representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling,
grammar, and punctuation.
20
Total:
100
