Your final paper—10 pages minimum—consists of the following
parts:
(a) Introduction to the area of well-being, its subjective
evaluation, and exploration of relationship of positive emotions and behaviors
to well-being;
(b) critical literature review of three research articles
about one positive emotion from your emotional journal entries (gratefulness,
calmness, happiness, hope, joy, interest, contentment [in it all varieties],
love [in all its varieties]);
(c) working with well-being questionnaire at pre-test, test,
and post-test intervals (Su, Tay, & Diener, 2014) and your personal
experience of writing emotional journal;
(d) report of results of well-being questionnaire at three
different points during the semester and making objective sense of the results;
(e) in conclusion, first, explicated importance of positive
emotions in student’s (meaning yours own) personal and academic life, and
second, described and evaluated what students learned from working on this
exploratory paper.
