Name: Kim Chae Eun(김채은) Id: 5694572 Title of the course: science of psychological
well-being
Week
1
Personal Reflection
I learned what mentally health is in this week. I thought about David’s example that no mental disorder
but he feels bored and don’t have clear direction. In my opinion, David is not mentally healthy. Because
he is enervated in his whole life. It means he need to find anything that can improve his mental.
2
The most interesting content in this week is remembering an experience is rely on not duration and average
but the end and peak. It is very surprised for me because I think that a memory about experience is
dependent on average feeling during the experience. After this class, I agree about ‘the peak-end rule’. For
example, people usually remember a trip only the best moment and the end of it. It is very interesting.
3
The most impressive activity is about introverts’ happiness. In my opinion, the reason why some introverts
act as extroverts is that they can have some socially benefits by the way. Most of people are likely to prefer
other who has characteristics of extraverts. This impersonation provides a lot of social relationship. But it
is not related introverts’ happiness. This behavior not only gives socially advantages but also loads stress
and worry. I think this choice is not good choice for introvert’s well-being.
4
In 4th week, we talked about life satisfaction. professor gave a discussion that what is the most important
criteria I used to respond to the life satisfaction question. Criteria is very difficult for me because it means
the aspects of my life. Actually, I didn’t respond about this question. After the end of this class, I really
think about what is important things of life satisfaction. I think relationship is the most. Because human
being had survived through social skills like kindness, grouping. Relationship gives people high self-esteem
that made by a lot of compliments. Furthermore, I wonder that compliments are related to life satisfaction
in real.
5
I realized reality that Korea had low social capital and had high gender wage gap. It is very harsh for
women living in Korea. And one activity is about why Korea is less satisfied than other OECD countries. My
group thought the reason is high-competitive society. Parent’s pressure become a burden for Korean kids.
It leads less life satisfaction because this pressure makes Korean to be unhappy. There are many reasons
why Korean is unhappy. I think low social capital, high gender wage gap, high-competitive society should
be changed as soon as possible for Korean’s life satisfaction.
6
I thought that SWB can change easily by myself. As professor said, this opinion is very dangerous for
mental health. If I can’t change my SWB, I may blame myself. And my self-esteem will be slowly low. But it
doesn’t mean I never change my SWB level. This mind will also ruin my self-esteem. In result, the mind
that SWB doesn’t change easily but it can change with a lot of effort. This opinion is very impressive
because it is not intending any side. It keeps middle way between two extremes. I selected this opinion as
my way of thinking. This knowledge can make my life to be more health.
7
In this week, we get an activity what we talk about the most wonderful moment that I experienced. It was
2023 in Paris, Montmartre. I traveled many countries in Europe. One of countries was France. It looked
around capital, Paris. It is very exciting. I walked to hill of Montmartre. I wore my air-pods and play Stellar
Jang - L'Amour, Les Baguettes, Paris. I could see the scenery of countryside. I feel that the time stopped
at a moment. Everyone moved slowly and it is incredible. I never forget this moment and this make me
happy and a motivation of travel. This moment makes me raise my SWB. When I come up this moment, I
feel happy and my SWB is high.
8
I think that 50 percent of people's happiness is determined by money. Because money affects many things
in one's life. It constitutes the basic of life. We don't do anything without money. we depend on money
since the world economy is capitalism. I think that we buy the portion of happiness. Money gives us the
right of determining. When we have much money, we can choice where we live, what we eat, even what
we do. But a lot of money doesn't lead happiness. How much money is needed for happiness. It is not
logical that the more money I have, the happier I am. Because I think money doesn't increase the extent
of happiness. It only influences the basic of happiness. In conclusion, I need to try to anything what I can
be happy except money. But processor said the income doesn’t effect on happiness much. It is different
study to my thought.
9
I want money than time. I compare two situations in my mind. A situation is that I have a lot of time but
don't have money. It is very terrible because I would waste my time only doing activities for free. It doesn't
give me any benefit. On the other hand, let's think about another situation that I don't have time but I
have a lot of money. I believe I can make time for leisure activities with any method. So I can make my
time by myself but I can't make my money by myself. I am a worker, so I can change my time to money. If
I have a lot of money, I can make my time. A study is different to my opinion about Life Satisfaction. This
information makes me think what is important in my life.
10
In this week, I talked about a dark side of optimism and positivity. Many older people get these personalities
because they experience many situations that is maybe unhappy. I think there are many side effects. The
world changes very fast and some experiences are not repeated. A tendency such as optimism make people
to be inflexible. In Korea, many elders have their thought and do not change them. For example, younger
people try to do their best for changing the world if it is very tiny. On the other hand, elders do not think
about how can the world change and what can they do. I think optimism causes these behaviors.
11
My criteria which decide whether I had lived worthy lives have 5 constituents. Socially honors, human
relationship, having money, experiences, big events that changed my values. When I am 85 in the future, I
can judge my life’s worth through these criteria. I think social positions in family, work, friend are very
important things. I think we can see us through other’s perspective because we listen and see how other
people think about me. It contains socially honors, human relationship and having money. Likewise,
experiences and big events are as important as social positions. Because these mean the extent of growth
as human.
12
I think it is different between what my life makes meaningful and what the sources of meaning in my life
are. It depends on personality of each other. In my case, affections that occurs in relationships with people.
People influence to another people and also be influenced. These natural relations make one's life become
meaningful. But the sources of meaning in my life is not relationships with people. These are experiences
for myself. It doesn’t matter positive experiences or negative experiences. Both makes the reasons for life.
we create meanings from overcoming negative experiences and accepts positive experiences.
Overall reflection on the
Before I attend this class, I think Well-Being is just feeling happiness which is caused
whole lecture/class
for whatever reasons are. If I feel happy, this feeling means that I live well (=well-being).
This lecture changes all of reasons of my thought. What is Well-being definition I
thought is Subjective Well-Being. The one of categories in Well-Being is SWB. There
are many components about Well-being. Well-being contains SWB (subjective wellbeing), PWB (psychological well-being), AB(Affect balance), LS(Life Satisfaction). With
this knowledge, I can make my life better from mental aspect.
The most important idea
it is true that SWB doesn’t change easily. However, if we tried about it, we can change
of the whole course for
our SWB. Also, the thinking that we can change our SWB easily is very dangerous
you (short answer)
because of low self-esteem by failing managing our SWB. We need to get a moderate
position.
The most interesting idea
The level of SWB that a murder is happy because of the contentment of killing anyone
of the whole course for
is same as the level of SWB that a person is happy because of socially success. SWB
you (short answer)
Criticism, concerns,
suggested improvements,
etc. (optional)
doesn’t contain virtue, righteousness. So we need to consider PWB for functioning well.