Activity 2.4:\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs591-sp18\/unit-2-learning-activities\/<\/p>\n
This activity was more challenging that the previous, but also more fun and rewarding. Keeping in mind the questions I had posed to myself in the first assignment, I set out to research the connection between health and happiness. I started with keywords first, using ‘happiness and ‘satisfaction’ interchangeably. I abbreviated as mentioned in the video, adding a $ sign in the end. These searches yielded too many results, in excess of 200. Also , also a quick perusal of the first few titles of my research, did not seem relevant to my question either. I then decided to search using both keywords and subject. I used the keywords ‘healt$’ and ‘happ$’, and the subject ‘psych$’, to cover both psychology and psychiatry. This resulted in a list of 25 books.\u00a0 One of them was this book- ‘Positive psychology in racial and ethnic minority groups : theory, research, and practice.’<\/p>\n
The author is\u00a0Edward Chin-Ho Chang, and it was published in 2016.<\/p>\n
Some excerpts from the summary of the book, “research in areas relevant to positive psychology, such as happiness, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence, has been based on findings from largely White samples and has rarely taken the concerns of the ethnic community into consideration.”, “focuses on four main ethnic groups: Asian Americans, Latin Americans, African Americans, and American Indians”. The intended audience of this book could be vast- psychology, psychiatry, research, spirituality. Without having read the book, I am unable to comment if this could possibly be\u00a0 self help book intended for the general public. Looking at the contents, I believe it is meant more as an academic read.<\/p>\n
The last chapter, ‘Challenges and Prospects for Positive Psychology Research, Theory, Assessment, and Practice in a Multiracial and Multiethnic World’,\u00a0 seems to be a call for further research. I hope it addresses weakness in their research or biases if any.<\/p>\n
For this activity I found that the video tutorials were very helpful. After completing the activity i kept browsing and found some other books that I did not realise the library had. I am looking forward to reading them (someday!)<\/p>\n
References<\/p>\n
Video-‘Searching for e-books in the classic catalogue’,\u00a0https:\/\/vimeo.com\/164163119\/b24ecb42e6<\/p>\n
Chang, E. C. (2016). Positive psychology in racial and ethnic minority groups:\u00a0theory, research, and practice.’<\/span> American Psychological Association. e-book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Activity 2.4:\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ldrs591-sp18\/unit-2-learning-activities\/ This activity was more challenging that the previous, but also more fun and rewarding. Keeping in mind the questions I had posed to myself in the first assignment, I set out to research the connection between health and happiness. I started with keywords first, using ‘happiness and ‘satisfaction’ interchangeably. I abbreviated as mentioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,28,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity-2-4","category-ldrs591","category-unit-2","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9i0gL-ebooks","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}