Study Della Porta (2013): study ZZ 2007

Public

Student participants in a kindness training, South Korea and USA 200?

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 218

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Performing acts of kindness with or without and autonomy support

Our Classification

Remarks

Performing acts of kindness: cf Lyubomirsky, Sheldon et al, 2005. Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change, Review of General Psychology, 9. 111-131.

Distribution

N = 1a: 59 1b 50 ; 0a 51; 0b 59

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Students were randomly assigned to either a 6-week treatment or control condition

1: TREATMENT: Students were instructed to perform five acts of kindness all in one day, once a week, for 6 weeks.

0 CONTROL: Students completed their regularly assigned academic course work

Both treatment and control group:
a: with autonomy support
b: without autonomy support;

Autonomy support involved receiving pre-scripted messages written to look as if they were from fellow students. Each message focused on one of the three ways to satisfy the need for autonomy, namely providing a rationale, giving a sense of choice, and acknowledging the perspective of participants.

Observed Relation with Happiness