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Journal of Management Education
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Article
A Multiskill, 5-Week,
Online Positive Emotions
Training for Student
Well-Being
Maria Hamdani
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Abstract
The aim of this 5-week Positive Emotions Project (PEP) is to teach students
simple emotional well-being techniques in an online course. I adapted
a clinical intervention that Moskowitz et al. developed for chronically ill
patients. The adapted training proved to be effective for academic purposes.
In this instructional innovation article, I provide detailed instructional
materials, and explain how to set up and conduct the training. Students read
simple instructions at the start of every week, for 5 consecutive weeks. Each
week focuses on one or two new techniques. I collected data and present
evidence of effectiveness. A secondary take-away from the study is to use
multiskill interventions, since not all the eight techniques taught through PEP
were endorsed equally for future use; feeling gratitude, setting attainable
goals, acts of kindness, savoring positive events, and self-affirmation were
the most popular PEP skills, whereas mindfulness was the least popular.
Keywords
positive emotions, multiskill, well-being, stress reduction, online training,
savoring positive events, acts of kindness, attainable goals, mindfulness,
gratitude, self-affirmation
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The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA
Corresponding Author:
Maria Hamdani, Department of management, College of Business Administration, The
University of Akron, 259 South Broadway Street, Akron, OH 44325-4801, USA.
Email: hamdani@uakron.edu
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