Study Nelson et al. (2014): study KR 2009

Public

Student participants in a self-affirmation training and controls, South Korea, 200?

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 50

Non Response

20

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Self-affirmation training

Our Classification

Remarks

Participation once a week during 3 weeks. In the 1st week they completed baseline measures of well-being. During the remaining 2 weeks, participants completed their assigned activity followed by well-being measures.

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Students were randomly assigned to a treatment and control group. Both groups were told that they engaged in activities to promote their wellbeing and participated 3 weeks.

1: TREATMENT: Participants were invited to choose a value from a list of 15 (e.g. independence, music/art, honesty, relationships with family/friends), to write about why the value is important to them, incl, personal expperiences demonstrating its significance.
After the 1st week participants were told they would continue to focus on their most important values, and that, if they chose to write about their activities from the previous day. To try to focus on different aspects of that value.

0: CONTROLS: Controls were instructed to write about their activities from the previous day - a "positive exercise" ostensibly designed to improve their organizational skills.

Observed Relation with Happiness