Study Fordyce (1983): study US 1980 /2
- Public
- Student participants in a happiness training, USA 198?
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 57
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Program to increase personal happiness
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- The '14 fundamental' behaviours are: - keep busy - spend more time socializing - beproductive at meaningful work -get better organized and plam -stop worrying - lower your expectations - develop positive thinking - become present oriented - work on a healthy personality - develop an outgoing social personality - be yourself - eliminate negative feeling and problems - close relations are number one for happiness - put happiness as your number one priority
- Operationalization
- In the context of a regular course, students were introduced in the science of happiness and presented a brief overview of the '14 fundamentals', which program was presented as 'new information on happiness self-help resulting from research'
1 TREATMENT: Extra exposure
1a FULL instruction:Students were additionally given detailed instruction in each of the 14 fundamentals and were stimulated to practice these behaviors on a daily basis.
1b PARTIAL instruction in only 4 fundamentals on which they scored low at pre-test
- personality
- attitudes
- life-style
0: CONTROL: No additional exposure
Observed Relation with Happiness
T1 T2 T3 T4 ` T4-1
Treatment:
- Full 6,77 6,53 7,51 7,55 +0,78(01)
- Partial
- personality 6,77 6,59 7,64 7,39 +0,62(01)
- attitudes 6,77 6,69 7,55 7,94 +1,17(01)
- life-style 6,77 6,88 7,86 8,01 +1,24(01)
Control 6,77 6,49 5,69 5,39 -1,38
Difference in change between full treatment and controls is +21.6% at T4
T1 = pre treatment
T4 = at the end of 6 weeks treatment
- Full 31.3 50.9 +19.6 .01
- Partial
-personality 31.3 51.3 +20.0 .01
-attitudes 31.3 54.5 +23.2 .01
-life style 31.3 64.5 +33.2 .01
Control 31.3 5.4 -26.1 ns