Anticipating attendance in reminiscence therapy with measures of mood and happiness

Nineteen community volunteers for a reminiscence intervention were grouped into those attending no more than one-quarter of sessions and those attending approximately three-quarters of sessions. A model of psychological well-being was used to discriminate these groups. Predictions from the model were confirmed in two analyses: attendance was related negatively to baseline mood but positively to baseline happiness; the acute/chronic environmental discrepancy term of the model was negatively related to attendance. The model correctly assigned 16/19 (85%) of subjects to attendance categories.