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(1) review and summarize Positive psychology research to answer the following three questions: (a) “what does it mean to live a pleasant life”? (b) “what does it mean to live an engaged (full) life”?, and (c) “what does it mean to live a meaningful life”? End this section with general purpose of your project (e.g., “The purpose of our final project was to conduct a qualitative survey study to gather information as to whether pursuit of pleasant, engaging, and meaningful life leads to high level of life satisfaction as suggested by Positive Psychology research summarized above.”) must be at least one FULL page long, based on at least five (5) primary sources (be sure to include APA style format in-text citations).

2) choose, at random, three (3) people (preferably different ages and cultural backgrounds; your Methods/Participants section) to interview them about their views of what does it mean to live a pleasant/engaged/meaningful life and whether (if so, how?) pursuit of all three contributes to their life satisfaction (your Methods/Procedure section). Type up the summary of your findings in detail (who said what; your Results section). In your Discussion section, reflect on the activity’s general findings (i.e., do they support past research results summarized in your lit. review?) and share your own answer to the question, reflecting whether (if so, how) your view about pleasant, engaged, and meaningful life characteristics has changed due to the knowledge you gained through readings, and presenting on Positive Psychology theory and research.1 full page

2 FULL pages in length, APA style format: double-spaced and in Times New Roman 12-point font, black ink, 1” margins on all sides, our references list must include at least 5 primary sources (i.e, scholar peer-reviewed articles) published within the past 10 years

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Abstract

Begin a new page. Your abstract page should include the page header, without the “Running Head” phrase (see above). Your abstract should contain at least your research topic and purpose, participants’ information, methods, results, and general conclusions on your findings. You may also include possible implications of your project and future research you see connected with your findings. Your abstract should be a single double-spaced paragraph. Your abstract should be no more than 180 words and include at least five key words keywords/key phrases. To do this, indent as you would if you were starting a new paragraph, type Keywords: (italicized), and then list your keywords. The purpose of your keywords is to help researchers find your work in databases. The following are the key phrases examples (please do not copy and paste these into your paper).

Keywords: subjective well-being, mindfulness, happiness, positive psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Review and summarize Positive psychology research to answer the following three questions: (a) “what does it mean to live a pleasant life”? (b) “what does it mean to live an engaged (full) life”?, and (c) “what does it mean to live a meaningful life”? The literature review is worth ten points; it must be at least one FULL page long, based on at least five primary sources (Seligman et al., 2005). Be sure to include APA style format 7th Ed. in-text citations for at least five peer-reviewed articles (i.e., primary sources) published within the past ten years. End this section with general purpose of your project. For example, “The purpose of our final project was to conduct a qualitative survey study to gather information as to whether pursuit of pleasant, engaging, and meaningful life leads to high level of life satisfaction as suggested by Positive Psychology research summarized above (Seligman et al., 2005)”. This is just an example; please do not commit plagiarism by copying and pasting the sentence above, or anything else for that matter, into your paper.

Method

Participants

You are required to randomly choose at least three participants for your qualitative research study. Make sure to provide their demographic information (i.e., age, gender) as well as ethnic/cultural and academic background.

Materials and Procedure

Describe the procedure you used to conduct the project (i.e., interview). What questions did you ask exactly? The following are the questions I posted for you on Canvas: “What does it mean to live a pleasant/engaged/meaningful life and whether (if so, how?) pursuit of all three contributes to their life satisfaction.” Feel free to paraphrase the questions to your liking; just keep them the same across your three interviews (i.e., standardized).

Results

What were your participants’ responses to your questions? Provide a summary of your findings in great detail (i.e., who said what?).

Discussion

In this final section, reflect on the activity’s general findings (i.e., do they support past research results summarized in your lit. review?) and share your own answer to the question, reflecting whether (if so, how) your view about pleasant, engaged, and meaningful life characteristics has changed due to the knowledge you gained through readings, presenting on Positive Psychology theory and research, and completing the weekly Discussions’ activities (e.g., engaging in random acts of kindness, expressing gratitude, exploring and using your strengths, to name a few). This part of your paper is worth 10 pts and must be at least one FULL page long.

Scroll down to continue with the APA style 7th ed. References list. Note that it must begin on a new page and include at least five primary sources (e.g., your textbook) that you cited in your Literature review section. You are welcome to use the source included in my list. Be sure to use APA style format (i.e., hanging indentation, proper capitalization, use of italics, doi. etc). See and follow the example below.

 

 

 

 

References

Seligman, M. E. P., Steen, T. A., Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2005). Positive psychology progress: Empirical validation of interventions. American Psychologist, 60(5), 410-421. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.60.5.410