Personal Predicition and Purposes

Hello, and welcome to my Omeka exhibit! Within this exhibit, I will discuss the rise in toxic positivity on social media due to COVID-19.
This phenomenon's causes, effects, and how it has impacted individuals who view and interact with social media accounts that boast these specific messages will be explored.

According to my prediction, the prevalence of poisonous positivity accounts on social media will change over the next five to ten years in response to the occurrence of serious illnesses. When the majority of diseases are significant, unresearched positive statements will increase, and these stories will suffer when the prevalence of sickness is low.. According to medical news today, toxic positivity is described as a preoccupation with positive thinking. It is the idea that all events, even the most terrible ones, should be seen positively.

Specifically, the uncertainty of the coronavirus has caused individuals to look for outlets where they can feel better and create positive messages for other individuals. Therefore, they are engaging in something to help them avoid anxiety during uncertainty and harmful disease. 

Humans experience a wide variety of emotions, and each one is crucial to overall wellbeing. Anger is a typical reaction to injustice or abuse, while anxiety, for instance, may warn a person of a difficult circumstance or a moral qualm. Sadness might indicate how severe a loss is.

Within my first artifact, the study determined the role of toxic positivity on college students’ mental health during the pandemic. Specifically, it sought to answer:

1. What are the influences of toxic positivity on college students’ mental health?

2. What are the factors that lead college students to engage in toxic positivity?
   In Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory, triadic reciprocal causation is used to explain psychological functioning. This concept assumes that human behavior is the outcome of an interplay between three variables: environment, behavior, and person. This notion was used to support the ongoing research on toxic positivity. Through cognitive characteristics, people tend to reinterpret their surroundings and decide what they wish to focus on. When someone practices toxic positivity, they are prone to optimism instead of dealing with negative emotions, believing that they are detrimental and should be avoided at all costs, which subsequently affects how they feel.