| Study | Segrin et al. (2005): study US 2000 |
| Title | Dyadic Interdependence on Affect and Quality-of-Life Trajectories among Women with Breast Cancer and Their Partners. |
| Source | Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2005, Vol. 22, 673 - 689 |
| DOI | DOI:10.1177/0265407505056443 |
| Public | Breast cancer patients and partners, USA, 2000. |
| Sample | Non-probability purposive sample |
| Non-Response | |
| Respondents N = | 96 |
| Correlate | |
| Author's label | Counseling program |
| Page in Source | 678 |
| Our classification | Actual changes in happiness, code H04ab02 |
| Operationalization | The women and their partners were randomly assigned to participate in one of two different 6 week counseling programs, after wich they once again completed the measures over the phone at T2. The other half of the sample was assigned to an attentinal control condition in wich the women with breast cancer also received six weekly calls and their partners received two bimonthy calls. However, their was no substantive counseling offered in these brief contacts. |
| Remarks | T1 baseline, T2 6 weeks, T3 10 weeks |
| Observed Relation with Happiness | ||
| Happiness Measure | Statistics | Elaboration/Remarks |
| A-BW-cw-mq-v-5-d | DM=+ | Patient's happiness at T1 M= 16,59 T2 M= 18.11 T3 M= 18.68 |
| A-BW-cw-mq-v-5-d | DM=- | Partner's happiness T1 M= 17.27 T2 M= 15.57 T3 M= 13.68 Difference between experimental group and control group not reported in this paper |
| Code | Full Text |
| A-BW-cw-mq-v-5-d | Selfreport on 20 questions. This scale consists of a number of words that describe different feelings and emotions. Read each item and mark the appropriate answer in the space next to that word. Indicate to what extend you felt this way during the past week?: A nervous B distressed C afraid D jittery E irritable F upset G scared H exiled I ashamed J guilty K hostile L active M determined N inspired O enthusiastic P alert Q attentive R proud S strong T interested Answer options: 1 very slightly or not at all 2 a little 3 moderately 4 quite a bit 5 extremely Negative affect score (NAS): A to K Positive affect score (PAS): L to T Affect Balance Score (ABS): PAS - NAS Name: Watson et al's PANAS ('past week' version) |
| Symbol | Explanation |
| DM | DIFFERENCE of MEANS Type: descriptive statistic only. Measurement level: Correlate: dichotomous, Happiness: metric Range: depending on the happiness rating scale of the author; range symmetric about zero. Meaning: the difference of the mean happiness, as measured on the author's rating scale, between the two correlate levels. |