BUILDING PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING THROUGH STORY READING IN LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATES: AN INTERVENTION OUTCOME

Abstract

Psychological Wellbeing in students has recently have lot of attention, especially after the pandemic outburst. Positive psychological intervention was proved as helpful in promoting psychological wellbeing and it is also connected with the story reading intervention; stories which support positive indicators. This study showed the effect of story reading intervention on positive indicators of psychological wellbeing over time for a group of literature undergraduates (n=60). This included 8 stories provided to the intervention group only for comparison with control group. The result showed that story reading led to improvement in students’ positive constructs over a period of eight weeks. The obtained results are discussed in the context of their implications for story reading intervention in higher educational institutions.

Keywords

• psychological wellbeing
• story reading intervention
• hedonic happiness (enjoyment
• pleasure)
• eudaimonic (meaning
• fulfillment) happiness
• resilience (coping
• emotion regulation)
• academic satisfaction (self-efficacy and achievements)