Critical Review Assignment
Choose an article on one of the following topics from positive psychology (the articles were chosen to match the final assignment topics): “Can Gratitude and Kindness Interventions Enhance Well-Being in a Clinical Sample”, “I Gotta Say, Today Was a Good (and Meaningful) Day: Daily Meaning in Life as a Potential Basic Psychological Need”, or “Mindfulness Can Make You Happy-and-Productive: A Mindfulness Controlled Trial and Its Effects on Happiness, Work Engagement and Performance”.
**This is the article I picked– I Gotta Say, Today Was a Good and Meaningful Day Daily Meaning in Life as a Potential Basic Psychological Need
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Upload the assignment. Please be sure that your article is research based.Your review must have at least a 200 word count.
Directions and Critical Review Example to follow below:
Directions
You will write a one-page critical review of the article. Please double-space your reivew. The review should answer each of the five questions. You must cite your source. If it is a website, please make sure you put the entire web address. Remember you are evaluating critically, not just summarizing. See the example below the grading rubric:
CRITICAL THINKING REVIEW EXAMPLE-USE THIS AS YOUR GUIDE
Critical thinking involves asking five questions—who, when, what, where, how. You should organize your paper in the following manner:
Your name should appear on the first line.
Next you place the correctly APA cited source that you are reviewing here.
Ex Example of how your paper will look:
Drollinger, T., Comer, L. B., & Warrington, P. T. (2006). Development and validation of the active empathetic listening scale. Psychology & Marketing, 23(2), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.20105
Where: Where did this article/Web page appear? Is this reasonable? Is the publishing entity respectable/responsible?
This requires that you do some research on the Journal itself. Is Psychology & Marketing a reputable journal? Where you get your information is critical when supporting your argument. This is why you will here your instructors telling you not to use Wikepedia (which can be edited by anyone) and blogs (which are usually mostly opinion). Even WebMD is a not reputable since some of their content is influenced by their sponsors.
Who: Who wrote/published the article/Web page? What are their credentials? Are the credentials appropriate for their argument?
Who are the authors? Are they qualified to research this? For example, do they have a doctorate?
When: Is this current information? If yes, do you think it will stand the “test of time”? If no, is it outdated or is it classic?
Articles have a shelf-life. When writing about this topic, you want current information and this article is 17 years old. It would behoove you to see if this measure has been written about since this article. Are they still validating it? Using it?
What: What argument is/are the author(s) making? Is it logical? Based on what you know, is it reasonable? What evidence is given to support the argument? Can you think of evidence to refute it?
This article is about creating a measure. What would be the purpose of using a measure to quantify active empathetic listening?
How: How was the supporting/refuting evidence collected? Is this credible? What kind of evidence do you think needs to be gathered to test the argument? Did the author(s) do this?
Summarize the quality of the article (it does not have to be a “good” article in your opinion), and whether you consider this to be a worthwhile and trustworthy article. Did you think it was biased? Could the author have underlying motives? What do you think? Is it valid?
NOTE: Do not simply answer yes or no to the questions above. Write a thoughtful response to each section.
