Study Alden & Trew (2013): study CA 2010

Public

Students high in social anxiety, Canada, 2010

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 126

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Acts of kindness / Behavorial experiments

Our Classification

Distribution

AK n = 43, BE n = 39, LD n = 44

Operationalization

Participants were randomly assigned to:
1a. ACTS OF KINDNESS (AK), participants were asked to engage in three kind acts a day on 2 days each week over a 4-week
period. Kind acts were defined as acts that benefit others or make others happy, typically at some cost to oneself.
1b BEHAVORIAL EXPERIMENTS (BE). participants were helped to identify their habitual safety behaviors and then were asked to complete two safety behavior experiments (i.e., intentionally use safety behaviors in one social interaction and then intentionally drop safety behaviors in the next interaction to observe differences in the way that others respond) on 2 days each week over a 4-week period.
0 LIFE DETAILS (LD = CONTROL). Participants were asked to record a minimum of three events that occurred each day on 2 days each week over a 4-week period.

Observed Relation with Happiness