Improving Psychological Well-Being of Young Adults by Conducting Family History Research at a Religious University

Prior research suggests that knowledge of one’s family is correlated with, but does not produce, psychological well-being. We test this conjecture, by examining whether participating in history (i.e., genealogical research) associated with well-being above and beyond the effects family, documented prior research. To this, we examine students enrolled a university level course, improve identification, selfesteem, anxiety, resilience, locus control more than sample. For find an increase which turn leads to improvements each these areas wellbeing. Direct being course show selfesteem 8% reductions anxiety 20%. In follow-up tests aspects are measures wellbeing researching records (e.g., census records) greater self-esteem reduced posting memories about families expanding tree do have same relation