Study Strack et al. (1985): study XZ Germany West 1982
- Public:
- Students translater school, West-Germany, 1982
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 51
- Non Response:
- ?
- Assessment:
- Questionnaire: paper
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Positive reminiscence
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Subjects were asked to think about either their present or past life (experimental variation) and then to write down 3 events that were either very positive and pleasant or very negative and unpleasant. (short, only 1/3th of legal size page was provided for each event). Then they were asked to rate their happiness.
Observed Relation with Happiness
POSITIVE EVENT
-in the past Mt=6.5 bc
-in the present Mt=7.9 a
NEGATIVE EVENT
-in the past Mt=7.5 ac
-in the present Mt=6.1 b
Means with a common subscript do not differ significantly (.05) on a directional t-test.