The effects of an outdoor adventure on mood and self-concept.

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Title The effects of an outdoor adventure on mood and self-concept.
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Hadley, Joan Louise
Contributor Taylor, Cecilia; Jensen, Jeff
Date 1994-12
Description Two instruments were employed to measure the effects of a 7-day canoe trip on the participants' mood and self-concept. The treatment and control groups were tested three times: prior to the river trip, at the end of the trip, and 1 month after the trip, with the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist (MAACL) and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS). An Unbalanced Repeated Measures with Structured Covariance Matrices was utilized to analyze the data. Although the changes for the groups as a whole, as measured by either the MAACL or the TSCS, were not statistically significant, the trends indicated substantial improvements in reduction in anxiety, depression, and hostility. The experimental group showed decreases in depression, anxiety and hostility, according to the MAACL. The changes measured in the experimental group suggest that outdoor adventures may be used as an adjunctive treatment for reducing hostility, depression and anxiety.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Nursing; Psychotherapy
Subject MESH Recreation; Self Concept
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "The effects of an outdoor adventure on mood and self-concept." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "The effects of an outdoor adventure on mood and self-concept." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. GV8.5 1994 .H33.
Rights Management © Joan Louise Hadley.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,19327
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Setname ir_etd
ID 192186
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xk8w10
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