Psychology Positive Approach Classic Research- Methodology Flashcards
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What were Myers and Diener investigating
Happiness
How do they define happiness?
A person’s perception of their own subjective wellbeing (SWB)
What is subjective wellbeing?
What method did Myers and Diener use?
Literature review of the research already carried out on happiness
How were structured interviews used to investigate happiness?
Ask closed questions e.g how satisfied are you with your life as a whole? Very satisfied, not very, not at all
How were questionnaires used to investigate happiness?
Closed questions that had scales
How were observations used to investigate happiness?
Time sampling- alert ppts to record what they were doing and thinking at that particular moment
Ppts given beepers that went off at a selected time
Ppts then had to send message to researcher about what they were doing and thinking
How were correlations used to investigate happiness?
Researchers investigated wat factors co-varied with happiness
E.g having positive judgement of life events
How was a meta- analysis used to investigate happiness?
Researchers investigated happiness by exploring multiple pieces of research already carried out
They reviewed the research and came to overall conclusions about happiness
