Happiness indices among persons with profound and severe disabilities during leisure and work activities: a comparison.

@article{citeulike:401405, abstract = {Happiness indicies were observed during naturally occurring work and leisure activities for individuals with severe (n = 12) and profound (n = 7) disabilities. Both groups showed more happiness indices during leisure than work activities, although the difference for the profound group was small (8\% versus 5\%) compared to the severe group (18\% versus 4\%). There was a significant difference between groups for leisure, but not for work activities. These results extend previous research on happiness indices, which has focused exclusively on individuals with profound disabilities, to individuals with severe disabilities and offer a beginning social validity database for individuals with profound disabilities.}, author = {Yu, Dickie C. and Spevack, Sara and Hiebert, Rene and Martin, Toby L. and Goodman, Ryan and Martin, Todd G. and Harapiak, Shayla and Martin, Garry L. }, citeulike-article-id = {401405}, journal = {Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities}, keywords = {developmental\_disabilities, happiness, pdfcopy, smiling, social\_validity, stamant}, number = {4}, pages = {421--426}, posted-at = {2005-11-19 18:15:33}, priority = {0}, title = {Happiness indices among persons with profound and severe disabilities during leisure and work activities: a comparison.}, volume = {37}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:401405 L3 - citeulike-article-id:401405 TI - Happiness indices among persons with profound and severe disabilities during leisure and work activities: a comparison. JF - Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities VL - 37 IS - 4 SP - 421 EP - 426 N2 - Happiness indicies were observed during naturally occurring work and leisure activities for individuals with severe (n = 12) and profound (n = 7) disabilities. Both groups showed more happiness indices during leisure than work activities, although the difference for the profound group was small (8% versus 5%) compared to the severe group (18% versus 4%). There was a significant difference between groups for leisure, but not for work activities. These results extend previous research on happiness indices, which has focused exclusively on individuals with profound disabilities, to individuals with severe disabilities and offer a beginning social validity database for individuals with profound disabilities. KW - developmental_disabilities KW - happiness KW - pdfcopy KW - smiling KW - social_validity KW - stamant AU - Yu, Dickie AU - Spevack, Sara AU - Hiebert, Rene AU - Martin, Toby AU - Goodman, Ryan AU - Martin, Todd AU - Harapiak, Shayla AU - Martin, Garry PY - 2002/// ER -