Why Help with Positive Psychology Research?

Positive psychology aims to devise strategies to help people become happier and more fulfilled in their everyday lives. These ‘interventions’ can be delivered by professionals – therapists or coaches – but many are also suitable for individual use. It is essential that new interventions are thoroughly tested before being recommended to the public, just like any other ‘treatment’. Although such treatments are being studied as supplements to traditional treatments for depression and other conditions, positive psychology interventions are not designed to treat mental illness.

 

The intervention being tested in this study could make a very useful addition to the range of strategies offered by positive psychologists, and this study aims to test how effective the intervention is. If you participate in the study you will receive a fuller description of the study aims after taking part – to accurately test the intervention, these details are withheld until after your participation to reduce the ‘placebo effect’. There is a 50-50 chance that you will be allocated to the ‘control’ group, who will receive a different, but still interesting, exercise from the group trying the intervention itself.

If you wish to participate in the research study , this can be accessed from the 'Participate in the online study' page.

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