PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Likert Scale, Life Satisfaction, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
5 Nov 2014
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In both east and west, in some respect happiness is the ultimate goal of life = what it means to live the good life. The eudaimonic tradition (prominent in the east): aristotle argued that the good life wasn"t about happiness and emotion, but behaving well towards others; morals and virtues; wisdom, understanding and gaining knowledge, rogers, maslow = the humanists. Process theories: csikszentmihalyi: autotelic activities = non goal directed things (doing it for the sake of doing it, snyder: hope = goal expectancy, meaningfulness as goal selection. Subjective well-being: have to take into account emotions and affect (interested in positive those we look forward to and prolong) also concerned with negative. 20 items, 5-choice likert scale ( very slightly to extremely ) 60 items, 5-choice likert scale ( very slightly to extremely ) 4 items, 7 choice likert scale choices vary. In general, i consider myself : not a very happy person a very happy person.
