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

Correlate

Authors's Label

Program to increase personal happiness

Our Classification

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