Study Fordyce (1983): study US 1980 /3
- Public:
- Student, participants in a happiness training 9-18 months ago, USA 198?
- Survey name:
- Unnamed study
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 69
- Non Response:
- 37%
- Assessment:
- Questionnaire: paper
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Program to increase personal happiness
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- In the context of a regular course, students had been introduced in the science of happiness and were presented a brief overview of the '14 fundamentals', which program was presented as 'new information on happiness self-help resulting from research'
Several classes of students were additionally given detailed instruction in each of the 14 fundamentals and were stimulated to practice these behaviors on a daily basis.
Observed Relation with Happiness
(According to investigator. No quantitative data provided, probably comparison with controls in earlier studies)
Happiness measured in the context of a wider questionnaire on the long-term experience with the 14 fundamentals training, on which most respondents answered that the training had made them happier