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Homework: Gratitude Visit
Getting Started
You were instructed in Workshop 4 to write a letter of gratitude to someone who has had a meaningful impact on your life and then personally deliver it and read it to them by means of face-to-face contact or a virtual contact, such as Facetime or Google Hangouts.
In this homework, you will report on your experience and how personally expressing gratitude to someone special in your life has affected you.
Upon successful completion of this homework, you will be able to:
1. Evaluate the impact others have had on your life and development.
2. Express gratitude to at least one other individual in a relevant manner.
Background Information
The goal of the Gratitude Letter and Visit is to help you experientially see the power of gratitude and its impact on both the one expressing it and also the recipient. . This is why the concept of gratitude is so important in positive psychology.
In this homework, you will share your experience: how writing, delivering and responding to this exercise in gratitude has affected you.
Instructions
Complete three inventories on the Authentic Happiness website again: Satisfaction with Life Scale, Approaches to Happiness, and Meaning in Life Questionnaire. You are retaking these inventories again so you can compare your results from before to where you are now.
1. Go to authentichappiness sas upenn edu testcenter website.
2. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page and look for the three inventories:
a. Satisfaction with Life Scale
b. Approaches to Happiness
c. Meaning in Life Questionnaire.
3. Click on links to the far right that says, Take Test. Use the same login information you created in Workshop 2.
4. When you've finished completing the inventories, copy and paste your test results with the descriptions onto a Word document. Compare your previous results from the first time you took these tests with these current results. Post your results on the Homework submission page.
In a Word document, write about the following:
Question 1. Report on any significant differences you noticed between the first and second taking of the three questionnaires.
Question 2. Who is the person you contacted for the Letter of Gratitude?
Question 3. What is your relationship with them?
Question 4. Summarize in a few sentences what you are most grateful for about this person.
Question 5. How did expressing gratitude to this individual in a personal way affect you?
Question 6. How did this individual respond to your expression of gratitude?