AHHHHssignment :(

As you can tell from the title, today's colouring-in was not great. I think it was not great due to general stress but also stress about this actual assignment. Corresponding to how I felt, below my PANAS scores show hardly any difference before and after colouring-in. Getting into flow was also difficult today, sometimes I felt like I went into a flow-like state but I quickly got out of it. I think what prevented me from experiencing flow was that I was overthinking about the current assignment. Since the colouring-in activity is part of the assignment, it did not distract me from these thoughts. Another reason I was not able to experience flow could be because the activity of colouring-in felt forced because of the deadline of the assignment. Lyubomirsky (2008) elaborates on this issue by saying that once an activity becomes extrinsically rewarding rather than intrinsically rewarding it is harder to experience flow.

Before:

Positive Affect: 20

Negative Affect: 26

After:

Positive Affect: 21

Negative Affect: 25