Table 2.
Six Open-ended Questions Administered Daily for 14 Days via Web-based Survey
| Treatment (Three Good Things Exercise) (Seligman et al., 2005) | Control (Placebo Sleep Hygiene Questions) | |
|---|---|---|
| Instructions | Please describe three good things that happened to you in the past 24 hours: | Please describe the nature of your sleep over the past 24 hours: |
| Question 1 | Description of the first good thing that happened in the past 24 hours. | In the past 24 hours, please describe exactly when and where you dozed off, fell asleep, napped, or slept for any length of time. |
| Question 2 | What was its cause? (What made this happen?) | If you engaged in any kind of exercise, including light exercise, in the past 24 hours, what did you do? When during the day did you exercise? |
| Question 3 | Description of the second good thing that happened in the past 24 hours. | During the past 24 hours, what kinds of caffeinated products (coffee, tea, soda, chocolate) did you have, if any, and about how much of each did you have? |
| Question 4 | What was its cause? (What made this happen?) | While you were sleeping at any time over the past 24 hours, was anything on (computers, lights, TV, stereo)? If so, what was on while you were sleeping? |
| Question 5 | Description of the third good thing that happened in the past 24 hours. | Please describe what you were doing in the hour before you last fell asleep. |
| Question 6 | What was its cause? (What made this happen?) | Please describe what you did in the first hour after your final awakening. |