Study Danner et al. (2001): study US 1991

Public

Nuns who lived in cloister since early adulthood. Followed into old age, USA, 1991

Sample

Respondents

N = 180

Non Response

17%

Assessment

Content analysis
Content analysis handwritten biographies written between the ages of 18 and 32. The Mother Superior had in a letter sent in 1930 requested that each sister wrote an autobiography. Content-analysis: Coders identified all words in the biographies that reflected an emotional experience and classified them as positive, negative or neutral. Than they classified each sentence as containing one or more positive, negative or neutral emotion words.

Correlate

Authors's Label

mortality rate

Our Classification

Remarks

Mortality of all causes.

Distribution

N: I:23;   II:30;  III:13;   IV:10

Operationalization

1: Died before 1993
0: Still alive

All nuns were born before 1917 and  joined the congregation between 1931 and 1943

Observed Relation with Happiness