Daily Event Tracker

Daily Event Diary Tracking Graph: Spring, 2020

NAME (PRINT CLEARLY):____Wesltey edobi___________________________________

I. Chart Completion:

1. Use colored pencils (e.g., Coloray) OR CRAYONS OR create graph using Word, Excel, or other graphing program.
2. Color scheme for moods, stress, and health:
Happy = orange Sad = purple Anxious = green Angry = red Rel. stress = light blue Work stress = brown Health = black
3. Mark a dot for each color, for each day, in the appropriate column. For example, if you had “Moderate” happiness on March 26, put an orange dot at 3.0 in the March 26 column. If you had “Very Little” happiness on March 31, put an orange dot at 2.0 in the March 31 column. Do this for every emotion, for every diary day.
4. NOTE: For health, “A Great Degree” = excellent/no symptoms and “None” = very sick/flu
5. Connect dots using the colored pencil that corresponds to the color of the dots you are connecting. For example, connect the orange dots for Happiness with orange lines. If you do not have colored markers, just use black lines.

IF YOU DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO COLOR MARKERS, use the following marking system:
Happy = + Sad = O Anxious = Angry = Relationship Stress = Work Stress = Health = H

IT IS OK TO HAND-DRAW YOUR GRAPHS, BUT PLEASE USE A RULER TO CREATE STRAIGHT LINES.

5. A Great Degree
5.0

excellent/no symptoms excellent/no symptoms excellent/no symptoms excellent/no symptoms excellent/no symptoms excellent/no symptoms excellent/no symptoms excellent/no symptoms
4. A Lot

4.0

3. Moderate
Amount
3.0

2. Very
Little
2.0

1. None

1.0
Mar.
26 Mar.
31 Apr.
2 Apr.
7 Apr.
9 Apr.
14 Apr.
16 Apr.
21
Average Scores Work Sheet

1. Assign values to the response scale, so that: none =1, very little = 2, moderate = 3, a lot = 4, and great degree = 5.
2. Compute the average score for each variable. Do this by summing across all days you filled in the diary, then dividing by this number.

Example: Add up all the 8 happy scores (3+4+5+5+4+2+1 + 4) = 28; 28/ 8 (days) = 3.50 = average happy score. Do this for Sad, Anxious, etc.

Mar.
26 Mar.
31 Apr.
2 Apr.
7 Apr.
9 Apr.
14 Apr.
16 Apr.
21 Average Score

Happy
Sad
Anxious
Angry
Rel. stress
Work stress
Heath

3. Write in your average scores, below.

Average scores for: Happy_____ Sad_____ Anxious_____ Angry _____ Rel. Stress_____ Work stress_____ Health ____
Write up:
What patterns do you see in your chart? What things both go up or both go down at same time? What things go in opposite directions?
What changes in your mood/stress precede changes in your health?
How do your life events (as noted in your diary) correspond to your moods?
Did your chart surprise you, or did you see what you expected? Was your average daily mood, stress, health different than you expected?
What was it like to keep a diary on moods, stress, and health?
Citations from readings: Draw on at least 3 different class readings covered to date. EXPLICITLY refer to readings and authors. Do not draw
solely from Taylor’s Health Psychology text.

Write-up should be 3 pages, double spaced, size 12 font, 1 inch margins.

MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR AVERAGE SCORES WORKSHEET AND YOUR CHART WITH YOUR WRITE-UP, AND PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR
ASSIGMENT!

FOR YOUR CHART, IF YOU CANNOT SCAN IN YOUR COPY, TAKE A PHOTO OF IT AND SEND ME YOUR PHOTO AS A

Write up and chart are due on April 30, end of class.