Choi (2011): study NL 2009
Publication
- Author(s):
- Choi, Y.W.
- Title:
- Pathways to Happiness.
- Source:
- Thesis University of Nijmegen, 2011, Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- Participants in a 9 day meditation retreat and controls, Netherlands, 2009
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Non-probability self-selected
- Respondents
- N = 26
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
7 minute structured interviews, videotaped for later content-analysis
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Ratings made by trained students from video taped interviews on...
A: Cheerful appearance
rated on 7 step faces scale
B: Happiness: I think this person is happy
1 strongly disagree
:
10 strongly agree
C: Life satisfaction: I think this person looks satisfied
1 strongly disagree
:
10 strongly agree
Computation: A+B+C - Classification:
- A-CA-m-rc-nvt-24-a
- Author's label:
- happiness, perceived by outside observer
- Remarks:
- Ratings made by 50 psychology students for study credit. The same person was not rated twice by the same rater.
The video tap[ed interviews of meditators and controls lasted about 7 minutes and involved the following topics:
a: introdicing one self
b: life in the last year and hobbies
c: the weather of the current day and one's activities that day
All interview were made in the same room and camera framed chest up - Page in publication:
- 70
- Error estimates:
- Cronbach alpha. =.98
- Full text:
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Self report on 4 questions, full texts not reported
A: Which (of the faces) best described how you feel at the
present moment?
7 completely happy
6
5
4 neither happy nor unhappy
3
2
1 completely unhappy
B: Which (of the faces) best described how you feel in
general?
7 completely happy
6
5
4 neither happy nor unhappy
3
2
1 completely unhappy
C: Taking all things together, would you say you are.....?
4 very happy
3 quite happy
2 not very happy
1 not at all happy.
D All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 satisfied
Computation: A+B+C+D - Classification:
- M-AO-*-mq-nvt-24-a
- Author's label:
- happiness, selfreported
- Remarks:
- T1 Mean: Meditators 20,77, Controls: 21,92
- Page in publication:
- 70
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 4 - 28 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 21.35 -
- SD:
- - -
- Full text:
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Self report on 10 questions:
During the past few weeks, did you ever feel ....? (yes/no)
A Particularly excited or interested in something?
B So restless that you couldn't sit long in a chair?
C Proud because someone complimented you on something
you had done?
D Very lonely or remote from other people?
E Pleased about having accomplished something?
F Bored?
G On top of the world?
H Depressed or very unhappy?
I That things were going your way?
J Upset because someone criticized you?
Answer options and scoring:
yes = 1
no = 0
Summation:
-Positive Affect Score (PAS): A+C+E+G+I
-Negative Affect Score (NAS): B+D+F+H+J
-Affect Balance Score (ABS): PAS minus NAS
Possible range: -5 to +5
Name: Bradburn's 'Affect Balance Scale' (standard version) - Classification:
- A-BB-cm-mq-v-2-a
- Author's label:
- Positive and Negative affect; selfreport
- Page in publication:
- 70
Correlational Findings
Actual changes in happiness
Meditation, mindfulness
Current meditation
Exercise
Voluntary, unsolicited
Mono sort
Multiple treatment moments