Study Martinez-Marti et al. (2018): study ES 2016

Public

Aged 18-69, Spain, 2016

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 150

Non Response

23,5% drop-outs

Assessment

Assessment not reported, assumed internet and email.

Correlate

Authors's Label

Appreciation of Beauty Intervention

Our Classification

Remarks

Most items not reported

Distribution

1:   n = 43
0a: n = 52
0b: n = 55

Related specification variables

Operationalization

1. TREATMENT GROUP
The 9 item Appreciation of Beauty and ExcelLence Scale (ABES; Martínez-Martí et al., 2016) measures the tendency to appreciate beauty, moral excellence, and nonmoral excellence (3 items for each subscale). A sample item to measure AB is "I am a person who is very sensitive to beauty."  Rated from 1 (completely disagree) to 7 (completely agree).
Durung the 3-week program respondents had to do different exercises  to keep participants engaged and to reach different goals.: video's, beauty journal, beauty awareness, beauty portfolio, environments, forum, past experiences and exposure to beauty.
0a. PLACEBO GROUP
The placebo condition focused on relationships with other people. Respondents had to choose 3 people (one person each week), with whom they had a different relationship in terms of closeness, from very close to not close at all. Then, participants answered the next questions every evening: (a) "What have I received from this person?", and (b) "What have I given to this person?"
This allowed the inclusion of daily exercises so it resembled the AB condition in this sense.
0b. WAITING LIST GROUP
Waitlist participants were informed that, because many people were interested in the study, they had been randomly assigned to do it in a second turn, but were requested, nonetheless, to complete the posttest and follow-up measures.

Observed Relation with Happiness