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Choose one of the topics and respond in a minimum of 200 words answering the questions included in the topic of your choice. This assignment will contribute to your final paper.
Your Daily Mood
To assess the content of a person's emotional life, researchers have sometimes asked volunteers to keep a record of their daily experiences over weeks or even months. You can keep a record of your daily mood for three days, and analyze the findings. To complete this assignment you will have to download the chart, PSY1010_Wk5_Chart3.
Each day of your tracking, complete the following survey:
Consider the balance between positive and negative affect (emotion) for each day that you tracked. To do this, compute an average positive affect score by finding the average of your ratings on "happy," "joyful," "pleased," and "enjoyment." That means that you should add up all of the scores that you listed for each of these four adjectives on each of the days that you kept track.
Next, compute an average negative affect score by finding your average on "depressed," "unhappy," "frustrated," "angry," and "worried."
Now, subtract your negative affect score from your positive affect score, which will produce your global daily mood score. If this score is greater than zero, then that means that you reported more positive than negative affect on that day. If this score is less than zero, then you reported more negative than positive affect on that day.
To compute a frequency of positive affect score, divide the number of positive days by the total number of days that you tracked your mood; this will represent the proportion of days that were more positive than negative.
When researching this topic, some questions to consider in your response may include: Did this exercise help you to see a pattern in your moods that you were not previously aware of? Which kinds of personality traits do you think tend to go along with a generally positive mood, and which ones go along with a generally negative mood? Does keeping track of your mood alter the results? Would your results be the same if someone else were tracking his or her observation of your mood?