Study Banziger & Roush (1983): study US 1978
- Public
- Nursing home residents, Ohio, 198?
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 40
- Non Response
- not rep
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- invoking responsibility
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- In a nursing home three groups were selected for a test for a responsibility inducing intervention.
1. Responsibility group. In a meeting the head administrator delivered a message of " caring for yourself, making your own decisions" They also got the responsibility for a bird feeder put up at their window,with the instruction: "when the food gets down, let us know"
2. Dependency group. In a meeting the head administrator delivered a dependency message: "your happiness is our responsibility"
3. Control group. They received no message at all.
Happiness was assessed 2 weeks prior to the interventions and 3 weeks after.