Study Schneider & Coppinger (1971): study US 1969

Public

Chronically impaired males, living in nursing home, USA, 196?

Sample

Respondents

N = 20

Non Response

51% unobtainable, because of incapacity or inability to understand.

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview

Correlate

Authors's Label

Misperception of Ss needs by staff

Our Classification

Operationalization

10-item inventory of statements which were intended to represent general needs of particular importance to resi- dents of an institution for the age (e.g. "being able to do things for yourself", being with people who like you").

On the basis of paired comparisons the relative importance of each of the needs was assessed for each of the
residents.
In the same way each staff member's perception of the relative importance of the needs for each of the residents was assessed. A difference score was computed for the discrepancy between each resident's ordering and the overall staff's ordering of the needs.

Observed Relation with Happiness