| 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 |
| Collect period | december |
| Survey name | Unnamed study |
| Sample | Non-probability self-selected |
| Meditators: participants Controls: people without meditation experience matched for sexe, age and education | |
| Respondents N = | 26 |
| 13 Meditators, 13 matched controls | |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| 7 minute structured interviews, videotaped for later content-analysis | |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | 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 |
| Page in publication | 70 |
| 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 |
| Error estimates | Cronbach alpha. =.98 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| Full text | 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 |
| Page in publication | 70 |
| Remarks | T1 Mean: Meditators 20,77, Controls: 21,92 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 4 - 28 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 21.35 | |
| Standard deviation |
| Full text | Selfreport 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 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | H04ab02 | Actual changes in happiness |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | M06ab | Current meditation, also classified as above ↑ |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | H16ae02a | Exercise, also classified as above ↑ |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | A02ac08 | Meditating,praying, also classified as above ↑ |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | H16ad03h | Meditation, mindfullness, also classified as above ↑ |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | H16ae04a | Mono sort, also classified as above ↑ |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | H16ae03b | Multiple treatment moments, also classified as above ↑ |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | H11ab02a | Perceived sources of one's own happiness, also classified as above ↑ |
| 9 day vipassana meditation retreat | H16ae05d | Voluntary, unsolicited, also classified as above ↑ |