Facilitating wellbeing behaviours: An online workshop for young adults aged 18-30

Participants will be invited to participate in a 2-week online intervention, focused on facilitating the search for meaning in young people’s lives. Carried out over the course of 2 online sessions, completed once per week for 2 weeks, participants will firstly be required to read through an explanatory statement outlining the procedure and requirements of the intervention, and then sign a consent form indicating their consent and intention to participate in the study. Participants will be recruited up to two weeks prior to the interventions start date. To be enrolled in this study they must complete the baseline questionnaire, a 15-minute survey seeking information on participants self-perceived meaning in life, hope, resilience and wellbeing (as measured by the below scales). All participants will be enrolled simultaneously to Group A: (hedonistic group), Group B (eudaimonic group) or Group C (control group) using a random allocation schedule (conducted by an independent third party) using random block sizes of 2 and 4. Upon completion of this baseline survey, participants will receive a unique completion code that they will then email back to the chief examiner, and they will then be randomly allocated to one of three groups, group A, group B or group C. Once allocated to a group, participants will then be sent their first intervention activity (either group A week 1 activity or group B week 1 activity. Group C will be asked to continue life as normal and to fill out the questionnaires as needed)). Participants in both of the intervention groups will then have 7 days to read through and complete their allocated activity, and then email their responses back to the chief investigator. The activity provided for the hedonistic group (group a) will include the completion of a mindfulness mediation exercise, while the activity for the eudaimonic group (group b) includes participants responding to a series of promptings asking them to reflect on what gives their life meaning, and then writing a letter from their supposed 90-year-old self to their present-day self with thoughts around what they would tell themselves to stop/start/continue doing to help create a more meaningful life? The time required for participants in either group to complete this first activity in both groups should be around 30 minutes. After this 7 day period, participants will be sent a reminder to complete and submit their first week’s activities, will then all receive their second round of reading and activities. Participants who do not complete their first weeks activities will still be sent their second activity. As with week one, participants will have 7 days to complete this task, and submit it back to the chief investigator via email. The time required to do so for them should again be around 30 minutes. The second activity provided for the hedonistic group (group a) will include them engaging in an activity that brings them pleasure, such as savouring a delicious meal and submitting a 100 word documentation on this experience, including how it made them feel; while the activity for the eudaimonic group (group b) ask them to engage in a helping behaviour, including volunteering their time to help someone else, share some money with a person in need or a charity, or commit some time to a local community group, while also submitting a 100 word documentation on this experience, including how it made them feel. Participants in all groups will receive a link for their second and final survey. They will have 10 days to complete this final survey, at day 10 all those who have not finished this will be contacted and given an additional 4 days (14 days total). Those who do not complete this following your prompt will be considered to have dropped out. Again, they will receive a completion code upon completing this, and once they submit this code, they will receive a debrief statement and information on being reimbursed for their time. Participants will be remunerated with $10 if they complete the pretest and posttest measures. Participants will be given $20 if, in addition to completing these measures, they also send back the two required weekly emails. This will be paid in the form of gift cards.