Customizing My Emotional Spin Cycle:

Data Analysis

Psychology 409b-Fall 2001-G15

Dr. Leon James, Instructor

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By: Serena

Date: 12-12-2001

Link to report instructions:

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy15/g15report2.html

INTRODUCTION

ÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀ Each person in our society goes through what Dr. Leon James calls, ?The Emotional Spin Cycle?.À In my report one it briefly describe what the emotional spin cycle mean to me.À The first report is an annotated bibliography of the spin cycle; it has the meaning of emotions, feelings, and the threefold self.À By understand the spin cycle it has some example of each definition, through the Generational curriculum, news media and websites and articles.

In our society we do things what is expected or even what we want to do.À We each have our own feeling and thought towards an event or even a behavior.À But how we react towards that certain event is different.À We may see or do things positively or negatively.À This is where we have rage, depression, mastery and passion towards our self and others.À Some examples are road rage, relationship, education and suicide.À Therefore, our societies determine us by how we behave.À

The emotional spin cycle in divide into four zones, the positive and negative towards self and the positive and negative towards others.À At times we go back and forth to the negative and the positive zones, but at other times we tend to stay on either negative or positive.À It is how we socialize with our friends, family and even to strangers.À

The emotional spin helps us interpret situation and allows us to know how to react to the situation, and that is our cognitive state.À We either act positively or negatively but what we interpret in our minds is how we will act into the situation.À In our emotional state we learn how to feel what we want into the situation.À In the acting is how we will behave to the situation, either punch a wall or violent attacks toward a person or to self when we encounter unhappy situation.À As you can see the emotional spin cycle contains the positive and the negative.À There are the red (others) and the blue (ourselves).À Each zones includes the cognitive, affective, and the behavior to the things that we go through everyday in our lives whether it is positive or negative.ÀÀÀÀÀ

In the future the emotional spin cycle will help us understand why and what is affecting our behavior towards a situation.À We can learn to control our violence behavior or even our depression behavior.À It can also help us help others a better understanding that life isn?t perfect but we can make the best of it.À But this is just the beginning in understanding, because we never know what happen in life or in the future.À If we all do apply the emotional spin cycle into our daily life we can probably have utopia.À What should be done about our future is be more aware of what we are doing and feeling in our lives. By making people in writing a journal it probably could help people avoid violence acts and self-destruction.À

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS

I collected my data according to Dr. Leon James procedures, by writing a journal of the intense moment of the day, one in the morning, one at noon, and one in the evening.À In each intense moment I record my affective behavior, cognitive behavior and sensori-motor behavior.À The difficulties I had in my data collecting was that I could not write it down write that instant, therefore at times I may be relaxed when I wrote in my journal.À The errors may be that my rage could have been at the peak where I was about to doing something hurtful or I could have resolved the problem in my journal by convincing myself that my rage was a misunderstanding.À

In data collecting we use the Threestep method: AVM method: with this method it allows me to know how to control my daily emotional spin cycle.À The method includes: the general instructions are here.

1. Step 1: Acknowledge that I need to gain better control over my negative spin cycle.À

2. Step 2: Witness my threefold self in the negative spin cycle setting through objective self-monitoring or self-observation methods of data collection.

3. Step 3: Modify my spin cycle in one selected area, and then I start again with another area.

This method we need 21 samples for one week so 3 samples per day.À This is where you record you feelings, behavior and thoughts for each intense moment.À For week one we use the sampling and differentiating technique, which we write down our feelings, behavior and thoughts 3 times a day and rate each day in a global rating.À The instructions on data gathering procedures are here. ÀÀFor week two the technique we use were Modifying and re-sampling, which is to target our self-modification by redoing a situation or activity and bridge it to a positive zone.ÀÀÀÀ

ÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀ The threefold self is where we modify our behavior.À According to Dr. James Leon, he stated that we socialized in three function.À The three functions are: the habits of feeling (affective domain of behavior), the habits of thinking (cognitive domain of behavior) and the habits of acting (sensori-motor domain of behavior).À The threefold self has two arenas, the other and the self.À In each arena there are the positive and the negative and the red and the blue zones.ÀÀ The daily spin cycle consists of 12 setting in 4 zones.À Each zone has three setting, the feeling, thinking and the doing.À The global rating questions consists of:

1. ÀWhat was my strongest stress point today:À (1=very weak; 10=extreme)

2. ÀWhat was my strongest level of satisfaction with myself today:À (1=very weak; 10=extreme)

3. ÀWhat was my best level of effectiveness or productivity today:À (1=very weak; 10=extreme)

4. ÀWhat was my best level of coping successfully with my feelings today:À (1=very weak; 10=extreme)

5. What is my current level of hope for the future:À (1=little hope or brightness; 10=extremely hopeful and bright)

6. What was the worst level of negativity or selfishness of some other people around you (1=almost no negativity or selfishness observed; 10=extremely strong negative or selfish behavior observed)

These questions are answer at the end of each day on the first week and the second week to be compared.À

WEEK ONE: SAMPLING AND DIFFERENTIATING

From October 29, 2001-November 4, 2001

Day one

Morning:

This morning I had a car appointment and I had to take my car in for service.À I took my car in and waited for my mother to pick me up at the service department.À Since I had an hour to spare before I go to school I went to Chinatown with my mother and baby sister for grocery shopping.À After about 30 min. I received a call from the service department and they told me that it would take $800 to fix my brakes.À I was shock and I felt very scared because I didn?t have the money to fix my brakes and I was afraid to tell my parents.À But I thought if I don?t tell them I wouldn?t be able to have any help to fix my brakes also I didn?t understand what he was explaining to me.À Therefore I told him to call my father and talk to him about the situation.À At the time I was driving therefore I didn?t have any action to the conversation beside my voice sound concern in what was wrong with my car.À

Noon:

I went to work and all I did was finish up the patient charts and did some statement.À I thought I was feeling stress because I wanted to finish my work before the doctor comes back from their lunch break.À At the same time I felt tired and sleepy though.À All I know is that I was walking back and forth to finish my work.À

Evening:

I got home I was already feeling tired but I had to help my mother prepare for dinner.À In my mind I was thinking maybe one day if I was not to help my mom who would help her.À All of my sisters were busy with their homework and my older sister didn?t come home early enough to help her.À All I can feel is stress and upset at my sisters.À I?m raging because I notice that I was making a lot of noise while cleaning and putting away the dishes.ÀÀÀÀÀ

Day 2

Morning:

I went to go to Chinatown for my mother to help her and get some things for her party.À I was feeling stress because I had to go to Chinatown and pick up the food and then go to Waikiki and after go home and get ready to go to class.À I was thinking to myself why me, why do I always do these things for my mom.À I know I want to finish everything in time so I drove quickly and walk really quickly to do my things.À

Noon:

I didn?t have any intense feeling.

Evening:

I helped my mother to quickly finish cooking dinner so that we could go to Costco.À At the same time I also felt frustrated because for the same reason. I had to help her prepare dinner and there is no one to help her beside me.À My mom knew I was frustrated because I told her how I felt and she saw how frustrated I was because I was frowning and my body was very tense and she could see that I really didn?t felt like helping her.À I am having another rage episode.À I was again cleaning with lots of noise and my facial expression was stern and pissed.ÀÀÀ

Day 3

Morning:

I went to take my car to Midas to fix my brake.À They told me it was going to be $600 to fix my car.À I was feeling stress because I thought to my self I hope there will be no more problem with my brake.À My sister?s boyfriend picked me up and he could tell that I was pretty upset because I told him how I felt about all the problems my car was giving me.À I could feel my body was warming up because of how upset I was to find out it would be still a lot of money to fix my brakes but at least it was $200 less.À

Noon:ÀÀÀÀ

After class I went home and took my grandparents out for lunch by the time the food came I had to quickly finish my lunch because I had to take my sister?s boyfriend to school at U.H.À Therefore I was thinking I better hurry up and eat because Lance will be late for school and I will be mad at me for being late.À

Evening:

After dinner we quickly cleaned up so that we could get a gift for my father?s birthday.À When we got to Ala Moana my two younger sisters took my mom and went shopping for themselves rather than getting a gift for my father.À Which I got mad, I could feel my heart racing and my body getting warm, my mom knew I was mad because my arms were crossed and I had a very serious face.À I thought to my self my sisters are so spoiled.À

Day 4

Morning:

ÀToday I had no class or work, so I wash some clothes, just when I was cleaning the area where we hang our clothes I found a bunch of red ants.À The first thing I did was scream and later I quickly got the bug spray and sprayed it until not one ant was moving.À I am so afraid of insects and bugs and every time I see one I always get the chills and start to squirm.À

Noon:

I had no intense moment because all I did was watch some television and sleep.À I was watching cartoon with my baby sister.À

Evening:

Around 4:00pm I went to pick up my mom when I got there she said that she wasn?t ready to go home yet.À Which I got a little mad because I raised my voice and told her why didn?t she call me before I left the house.À After I hanged up with her I knew I was feeling warm for a least 5 seconds when I was talking to her.À But when I drove away I started to realize that I was wrong for raising my voice.À

Day 5

Morning:

I had no intense moment because everything seems to be going smoothly.

Noon:

For lunch my mom, grandparents, older sister and my younger sister?s boyfriend went into Aiea for lunch.À Then all the sudden my sister called and told me to drive back to Kalani to pick her up and take her home because she got her period.À Which I asked her to wait till I get home or after lunch I would take her home but she was so demanding and wanted to have it now which I told her I won?t.À She still insist that I should which got me more mad and I yelled at her on the phone with out her saying any thing I just hang up the phone.À

Evening:

After work I went to the bank with my mom and after we went to get a present of my fathers birthday.À The only intense feeling I think I had was to determine what to get for my father.À We went to Liberty House but we could not find anything.À When I chose a shirt that was very nice, but when I looked at the price on the shirt it was so expensive.À Then we went to Banana Republic and we found so much nice shirts that was reasonable and worth buying.À I found 5 shirts and I had to determine only three shirts.À

Day 6

Morning:

I work at a pediatrician office and it was very busy today.À It was very intense because everyone came all at once and because the reception area was really small it was very crowded and noisy. ÀAll I wanted to do was to get the entire patient out of the reception area and into the examining room so it wouldn?t be so noisy.À Therefore I was helping the nurse and getting the entire patient?s weight and temperature.À I realize that I was moving very quickly, faster than an average day.À I also new I was a little irritated by the sound because I could feel that I had a headache.À

Noon:

When I got home I saw that my sisters did not do their chores, which I got really mad because I just got home from a very stressful morning and now I came home to a very messing house and no one did anything.À It seems that my sisters expected me to help them clean the house.À When I saw how messy the house were I yelled at them and said, ?What did you guys did all morning?? Due to the fact I got home around 1:30 and my mom was coming home at 4:00 I just got madder because I only had 3 hours to help them clean the house.À I notice that I was doing all their chores just to make them feel guilty so that they could stop watching TV and do their chores.

Evening:

The whole night I tried to finish my paper and I could feel numbness to my buttocks because I was sitting for 4 hours straight and my fingers were cramped for typing so much.À I said to myself, ?Just a little more and I will done.?À All I know is that I was feeling very tired because I been working, cleaning and doing my paper and I felt no one even cared about how stress and tired I was.À

Day 7

Morning:

I meant to wake up early to finish my paper, which I didn?t get the chance to start.À My mom wanted me to go to one of the hotel that she works and run some errands for her.À Which I was very irritated because I made plans to finish my paper and I didn?t want to do anything else beside my paper.À So I sort of raised my voice on the phone and said, ?Why me, can?t Christina do it?? But of course I just did it to avoid my mother form being upset of me and my mother did said please and thank you, which also made me do it.

Lunch:

My mom got off early so we ate lunch and went shopping because my sisters needed some clothes for tonight?s dinner.À We went shopping for 4 hours and it was one hour before dinner, that we realize that we had to go home and get ready for dinner.À So we quickly left and I was yelling at my sisters to hurry up and choose which one they wanted.À I was thinking to myself why do they always take forever to choose what they want to get.À I notice that I was sighing because I was tired and irritated of my sisters.À

Dinner:

There was no intense moment, except for the last minute we were all fighting for the shower and rushing to leave.À I was telling my sister to just go first and we will meet up with them later.À I was grunting ant them to leave.À

GLOBAL RATING FOR WEEK ONE

Date	Stress	Satisfaction	Effectiveness	Coping	Hope for future	Selfishness
Day 1	5	3	5	4	6	2
Day 2	4	6	6	4	6	2
Day 3	4	3	4	5	7	5
Day 4	2	2	2	5	8	1
Day 5	4	6	6	6	8	4
Day 6	6	7	7	6	7	2
Day 7	5	5	6	4	7	1

ANALYSIS FOR WEEK ONE

ÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀ In looking at my week one analysis I seem to be more stress at home, especially when it deals with my sisters.À I seem to be in the zone one (red) and zone 2 (blue) and I hardly flip to the positive side when it comes to my sisters.À I could flip to the positive when it deals with anything that happen in the day but it was hard for me to flip to the positive side at the end of the day because I think that I had a stressful day and I expected to do nothing at home but it does not work that way.À The spin cycle started to become visible when I got mad at my sisters.À I wanted them to feel guilty for the things I have done.À I expected them to realize that I was mad at them so I deliberately complained to my mother, yelled or even gave them a bad attitude.À According to this week I get very irritated and frustrated at my sisters very often especially when it comes to dinnertime.

WEEK TWO: MODIFYING AND RE-SAMPLING

From November 19-25, 2001

Day One

Morning:

Place: Psychology 250 class

Feeling: aware and tired

Thinking: Thinking what the instructor is teaching.

Doing: writing notes, trying to write what the teacher is saying.

Noon:

Place: Driving from town to Waipahu

Feeling: feeling happy and cautious

Thinking: Thinking that I won?t get a speeding ticket from a cop

Doing: Looking around and speeding

Evening:

Place: Home

Feeling: Tired

Thinking: What to do with my sister

Doing: watching TV

Day Two

Morning:

Place: home

Feeling: relaxed and happy

Doing: watching TV with my baby sister

Noon:

Place: Psychology 409 class

Feeling: Feeling tired and awareÀ

Thinking: What to say during discussion

Doing: Sitting and listen very careful so I can absorb the presentation

Evening:

Place: Home

Feeling: irritated and tired

Thinking: What will my mom do with out me because my sister don?t even care in helping my mother

Doing: washing dishes and cleaning up after dinner.

Day three

Morning:

Place: In the car with my sister?s boyfriend who just picked me up from school

Feeling: I was a little mad at my sister?s manager

Thinking: How can a person let a teenage girl work so many hours especially when they are still in school

Doing: Talking to my sister?s boyfriend in a very stern and irritated voice

Noon:

Place: Grandmother Dentist office

Feeling: Tired, aware, and irritated.

Thinking: The dentist is really talkative and caring, I really hate the sound of the drilling

Doing: Sitting down near my grandmother and listening to the dentist

Evening:

Place: Home

Feeling: relax and tired

Doing: watching TV

Day Four

Morning:

Place: Home

Feeling: sleepy and tired

Thinking: I hate cooking

Doing: preparing the ham and turkey

Noon:

Place: Home

Feeling: Very tired and sleepy

Thinking: How long is this ham and turkey is going to take and when will I finish

Doing: Turkey in the oven and now preparing the ham (glazed)

Evening:

Place: Auntie house

Feeling: relaxed and hungry

Thinking: I don?t have to clean tonight

Doing: Enjoying my Thanksgiving dinner with family

Day Five

Morning:

Place: work

Feeling: energetic and happy

Thinking: Hope today there are not to many patients coming in

Doing: processing patients and preparing charts

Noon:

Place: Ala Moana Center

Feeling: Feeling energetic and happy

Thinking: What should I get for everybody for Christmas?

Doing: shopping for Christmas gifts

Evening:

Place: Home

Feeling: Happy

Thinking: finally my sisters are helping preparing dinner.

Doing: setting the table for dinner and helping my mom cook

Day Six

Morning:

Place: Work

Feeling: Energetic

Thinking:À Wow, there are a lot of patient today.

Doing: processing patients

Noon:

Place: Zippy Restaurant, for a study session with a friend

Feeling: Very tired

Thinking: I hope this won?t take long, because I am so tired

Doing: eating and studying

Evening:

Place: Home, and received a call from a friend

Feeling: being pressured for doing something I don?t feel like doing

Thinking: It?s my fault for not calling or going out with them for a long time I should just go out to socialize.

Doing: getting ready to go to the movies with my friends

Day Seven

Morning:

Place: home

Feeling: relaxed

Thinking: (dreaming)

Doing: Sleeping

Noon:

Place: home

Feeling: relaxed and tired

Thinking: I should started studying for my exam

Doing: sitting down and starting to do my studying

Evening:

Place: Home

Feeling: tired and stress

Thinking: about all the main topics for the exam

Doing: studying for my exam

GLOBAL RATING FOR WEEK TWO

Date	Stress	Satisfaction	Effectiveness	Coping	Hope for future	Selfishness
Day 1	3	6	6	5	7	1
Day 2	3	6	4	3	6	2
Day 3	2	6	5	5	7	3
Day 4	5	7	7	7	8	2
Day 5	2	7	7	7	8	2
Day 6	5	8	7	5	7	4
Day 7	5	6	7	2	6	1

ANALYSIS FOR WEEK TWO

ÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀ For this week this is where I start to bridge my thoughts towards the things I do everyday that could be the same with last week.À The bridge is the thing that I say to myself to cross over the bridge onto the positive side of the emotional spin cycle.À In comparing my global ratings of week one and week two I have noticed that I was less stress and more on the positive zone.À Majority of my feelings were happy and satisfied of what the day have brought me.À In my cognitive habits I seem to think the realistic in life.À There was a day that my sisters actually help with the dinner preparation and I think it had to do that my mom went shopping with them where they could buy things for themselves and since they were rewarded with clothes they might have felt that they should help around the house on that day.À I thought to myself that what do I have to do or say to make the dinner preparation go smoothly without my yelling it to my sister.À Then I said to my sister: ?Could you please help mom and I to get dinner ready before dad comes home since we came home late it best that everyone helps.?À Of course they have agreed to help with dinner.À This week shows that when we have reoccurring events happen it?s best that everyone is in a good mood so that they could be doing good deeds.À

DISCUSSION

ÀÀÀÀÀÀ According to the text ?Behavior Principles in Everyday Life?(Baldwin and Baldwin 1998), behavior definition is where we describe our behavior careful, detailed, and objective.À When our behavior is being observed and recorded we want it to be objective so that the experiment won?t be bias.À In my data collecting, I was very careful and objective of how my behavior was affecting the people around me and myself.À In improving my behavior I used the behavior modification of reoccurring my behavior form week one to week two.À Baldwin and Baldwin (1998) defined behavior modification as improve people?s thoughts, feeling and action to a certain situation.À Which I did have a day of behavior modification, it was when my sister?s actually helped me in preparing dinner before I even asked for help.À In week one I was more on zone one (negative red to others) and zone 2 (negative blue to self).À I could not find and way to speak or make my sisters to understand how it?s important to help around the house.À It was whether my day was stress at the beginning and before I arrive home for dinner I chose to take my anger and stress out to my sisters.À Therefore in week two I tried to make it better but the only day that actually worked was when we had a great day in shopping and relaxing.À Then when we all arrived home we were more in the mood in cleaning and felt appreciated to what has happen on that day and this would be my bridge to cross over.À I was in zone 3 (positive blue to self) and zone 4 (positive red zone to others) where I have mastered a relief from shopping and I wasn?t stress and relaxed and I wasn?t feeling anger, I wasn?t thinking any bad things and I was thinking I so happy that my sisters didn?t argue with me in helping me in cleaning.À

CONCLUSION

ÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀÀ In conclusion the emotional spin cycle affect us everyday in our lives.À We think, feel, and act on the situation that happens to us whether it?s negative or positive.À Even though I hardly had any intense rage in my life but I believe that having rage is not a bad thing, because sometimes we must act out our anger and if we don?t we are hurting ourselves.À But the main point is to know when to flip to the positive zone after you experience rage.ÀÀ In making a journal of your emotional spin cycle it would be the first step in experience the awareness of your behavior and learn how to modify your behavior.À

REFERENCE

Baldwin, John D. and Baldwin, Janice I.À Behavior Principles in Everyday Life.À Prentice Hall, Inc. 1998.

James, Leon.À http://www.soc,hawaii,edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy15/g15reports-instructions.html

Wong, H.À http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409bf2001/wong/report1.html