Name
Capella University
PSYC FPX 4110
Prof. Name
December, 2024
Activity Summary
In other words, temperance can be said to be the ability to avoid giving in to vices. As we can see there is integration of the mental, the practical, and the sensual (Benoit et al., 2021). Thinking about this virtue, I selected one a rea of my life to work on by engaging in a week activity called mindful moderation- technology usage. In this case, I wanted to apply boundaries on activities I engage in daily for instance between working, playing, and socializing. I wanted to keep my time spent with screens at a minimum. In the past I had written daily my story; I took note of all the features that I have been tempted by or have made me succeed or frustrated. Self-organization applied to business objectives sought to increase attention span, strengthen interaction with people, and improve overall quality of life. The decrease in the coordination and fluctuations in the rhythm of daily life activities were brought about by the reorientation of device time towards exercise, reading, or even talking.
It all started from noticing how much technology dependency there was in my entertainment and even in multitasking itself. The first few days were somewhat hard because I only ended up finding myself browsing through Twitter or Facebook frequently whenever I felt bored. The difference can be seen at the weekend in not getting sidelined. Sensing there was more mindful intention, I felt that the presence was heavier in discussions and work, hence propensity and passion in the results. This reflection helps me realize how temperance fosters development in individuals and their relationships with other people – letting me appreciate how important moderation is irrespective of time.
Relationship to Positive Psychology
This virtue has immense relevance to positive psychology because temperance is one of the virtues that the discipline seeks to build and enhance to attain a satisfying and worthwhile life. In positive psychology, temperance has been specified by researchers as being one of the six central virtues that comprise self-control, humility, and forgiveness (Dickson et al., 2023). In positive psychology, these kinds of virtues have been referred to as special strengths concerning the improvement of well-being, relationship building, and coping with hardships of life. They reduce self-indulgence and Jerusalem syndrome to ensure a person is controlled and does not do something now that he surely will regret later or be harmful to him or others.
That is exactly what positive psychology research has shown to endorse the tempering of hedonic pursuits; excessive use of technology, in that instance, to enhance one’s well-being (Van, 2021). Temperance also makes people improve interpersonal relations because they learn not to be beguiled by trivial vices but instead value quality in relations, making life worthwhile and belonging to a group. In this alignment, one finds that temperance, being a virtue, is the path to attaining the fundamental tenets of positive psychology: better overall quality of life and improved, more harmonious ways of functioning of the human being.
Application to Social Issues
Easily, temperature is relevant in the solving of many social issues in as much as the promotion of moderation and restraint within the society and persons. In a world, that increasingly allows and even encourages overconsumption, hedonism, and making impatient demands on the body, temperance can provide a model for sustainable and ethical living. For example, in the area of the environment, temperance helps users and groups of users not to pollute the environment and not to waste the resources they have (Li & Jia, 2021). By regulating the tendencies towards consumerism and preferring the longevity of a person’s health over consuming hedonic products or satisfying appetites, temperance may encourage environmental sustainability.
There is, therefore, another area of application for temperance, which is social inequality. The third one is moderation as a virtue that will prevent many people and organizations from going overboard when they are seeking to earn money due to the problems of economic injustice (Ryff, 2022). It would promote ethical leadership and equitable use of resources to minimize differences between bottom and upper-class people. It would promote the practicing of ethical leadership and correspondingly fair distribution of resources to those who lacked them for the reduction of the gaps within society. Measures and educational programs regarding social campaigns that focus on moderation or balanced behavior can help society act healthily. By applying temperance principles to these social issues, personal and social autonomy is achieved in aiming towards an effective realization of righteous fairness, balance, and equal representation in people for the common good of society to benefit from the act in question (Montiel et al., 2021). This means that temperance is capable of having the positive effect of helping people improve both as individuals and as a society by solving big social problems.
PSYC FPX 4110 assessment 3 References
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