The scene selected for a theory and principle of Psychology is when Mark Watney is setting up a video camera over his mars space station (HAB) lab turned potato farm. Mark is talking to the camera stating, “now that NASA can talk to me they won’t shut up, they want constant updates of the HAB and they have a room full of people trying to micromanage my crops.” “Which is awesome, I don’t mean to sound arrogant but I am the greatest botanist on this planet.” Gesturing to the camera the progress of his thriving potato farm. Watney talks about an email he received from this alma mater “The University of Chicago” saying that, “once you grow crops somewhere you have officially colonized, so technically, I colonized Mars.” Music starts playing as
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His approach used the Humanistic psychology approach. The theory of Subjective Well Being is a more recent derivative of the principle, positive psychology. Subjective Well Being is defined as such, “Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people’s quality of life” (Myers, D. G., & DeWall, C. N. (2016)). The authors of a review article on subjective well being concludes from many studies that optimism and positive thinking have a very strong correlation between decreasing stress and improving health (Diener, E., & Chan, M. Y. (2011)). A study conducted by Chida and Steptoe (2008) found that positive well-being decreased mortality rates in both healthy and diseased …show more content…
“In individualist cultures, distressed people feel more comfortable turning to friends and family” (Mortenson, 2006). When Mark is all alone and has no communication with earth he is in a individualistic culture. In his communication with NASA Mark considers them to be friends and almost family. NASA is replicating all Watney’s actions on Mars to try and find better more efficient ways of surviving. This social support is reliving him of the huge burden of being stranded on a planet where everything is trying to kill him. He also has an internal locus of control stating, “they have a room full of people trying to micromanage my crops.” “Which is awesome, I don’t mean to sound arrogant but I am the greatest botanist on this planet.” At this moment, Mark is feeling that he controls his own fate and destiny. His mental internal control of the grim situation is reducing his stress level, blood pressure and boosting his immune system, a study concluded that when humans have a sense of control these systems are positively affected (Rodin, 1986; Sapolsky, (2005)). Mark also has a great scene of optimism for his current situation, optimistically stating, “once you grow crops somewhere you have officially colonized, so technically, I colonized Mars.” Mark is actively engaged in positive, optimist thinking which is having a positive effect on his
His approach used the Humanistic psychology approach. The theory of Subjective Well Being is a more recent derivative of the principle, positive psychology. Subjective Well Being is defined as such, “Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people’s quality of life” (Myers, D. G., & DeWall, C. N. (2016)). The authors of a review article on subjective well being concludes from many studies that optimism and positive thinking have a very strong correlation between decreasing stress and improving health (Diener, E., & Chan, M. Y. (2011)). A study conducted by Chida and Steptoe (2008) found that positive well-being decreased mortality rates in both healthy and diseased …show more content…
“In individualist cultures, distressed people feel more comfortable turning to friends and family” (Mortenson, 2006). When Mark is all alone and has no communication with earth he is in a individualistic culture. In his communication with NASA Mark considers them to be friends and almost family. NASA is replicating all Watney’s actions on Mars to try and find better more efficient ways of surviving. This social support is reliving him of the huge burden of being stranded on a planet where everything is trying to kill him. He also has an internal locus of control stating, “they have a room full of people trying to micromanage my crops.” “Which is awesome, I don’t mean to sound arrogant but I am the greatest botanist on this planet.” At this moment, Mark is feeling that he controls his own fate and destiny. His mental internal control of the grim situation is reducing his stress level, blood pressure and boosting his immune system, a study concluded that when humans have a sense of control these systems are positively affected (Rodin, 1986; Sapolsky, (2005)). Mark also has a great scene of optimism for his current situation, optimistically stating, “once you grow crops somewhere you have officially colonized, so technically, I colonized Mars.” Mark is actively engaged in positive, optimist thinking which is having a positive effect on his