Date of intervention: 9th May - 11th May
I can always spot the connection between tattooing and psychological well-being. It has always been an intuition until I did my research.
The seven fundamental reasons for people getting tattoos are:
Recording the characteristic features of life.
Spiritual enlightenment.
To decorate the body.
To protest authority.
Seeking for belonging.
To visually attack others.
To create body art.
Lemma, A. (2010) Under the Skin, A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification, London:
Fox, B. (Director). (2012). The Skin I'm In [Video file]. Broderick Fox. Retrieved April 12, 2020, from Kanopy.
The six-factor model of psychological well-being including:
Self-acceptance
Personal growth
Purpose in life
Environmental mastery
Autonomy
Positive relations with others
Seifert, T. A. (2005). The Ryff scales of psychological well-being. Assessment Notes
I did an intervention by put those factors together on the same sheet and invite people to draw the connections. The interesting thing is everyone seemed to see things a bit differently but by doing so, my target audiences start to think about the connections between those two disciplines.
