Positivity And The Capabilities Approach By Eranda Jayawickreme?

Example Consider a participant that is 80 years old and has experienced a Victrola to listen to 78’s, record player for their 45’s and LP’s, am radio, transistor radio with am/fm, HiFi stereos, 8 tracks, cassettes, Walkman’s, CD players, CD/Walkman’s, and satellite radio all to play music. Now imagine handing this same participant a smartphone and asking how they feel about getting their music on their smartphone via an app, what do you think their positivity reaction would be? I imagine that this would be frustrating to this participant and this would fall under a negative reaction. While this participants 21-year-old counterpart, that only has memories of CD’s, MP3’s and most likely utilizes their smartphone for far more than music on an hourly basis, would look at this same question with a positive reaction. Whereas, if you gave both of the participants an 8 track tape, the younger of the two would be perplexed and see this and an inconvenient way to listen to music, while the older participant would likely display an involuntary grin, perhaps begin humming a tune, positively reacting to this stimulus. Using this as an example, I believe that existing studies results are skewed, unable to fairly predict an individual’s positivity as a result of aging. Experience is a vital factor in assessing an individual’s thought process, whereas, all of experiences shape our opinions, thoughts, ideations, and feelings in a perpetual process of personal evolution. Positivity Proven statistics on the benefits of a positive attitude, with resilience and coping skills. Optimistic people boast superior health than pessimists, positive emotion reduces some racial biases. Externalities (e.g., weather, money, health, marriage, religion) added together account for no more than 15% of the variance in life satisfaction (Diener, 1999). Happy teenagers go on to earn substantially more income 15 years later than less happy teenagers, equating for income, grades and other obvious factors (Diener, 2002). How individuals celebrate events that affect their significant other is a better predictor of future love and commitment, as well as how they will respond to bad events throughout their lifetime (Seilgman, Ernst, Gillham, …show more content…
Pawelski, evaluates the suitability of Nussbaum’s substantive account of capabilities (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). Empirical and conceptualized work has shown the value of positivity, widely sought after quality, that proves to influence general outcomes, economics and overall wellbeing (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). While Nussbaum sees positive emotions as incidental to the experience of well-being, Jayawickreme and Pawelski believe that experience and mental state is as influential (Jayawickreme, & Pawelski, 2016). In the application of a study, attempting to measure the age positivity effect on products entitled Age Differences in Choice, Satisfaction: A Positivity Effect in Decision Making, did show that older individuals looked at, the more positive aspects of the product for sale, further supporting the “age influenced positivity effect” is proven in diversified studies (Kim, Healey, Goldstein, Hasher, & Wiprzycka, 2008). It is widely respected in aging psychology that older adults are more connected to positive stimuli, documenting attention to memory tasks, reading emotions through facial expressions and images in addition to health and advertising (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Mather & Carstensen, 2003). The younger adults focus on the negative aspects and stimuli in all of the aforementioned categories, broadening the data collected on the topic of age related positivity effect (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Mather & Carstensen,