Happiness measure, code: A-CA-mh-ri-v-2-b


Interviewer-rating of cheerfulness:

Altogether the respondent looks.....
2 quite cheerfull
1 not too cheerful
- difficult to say

Part of the 8 item Allensbacher Ausdrücktest which also involves ratings of cheerful appearance in: look, mouth, posture, movements, eyes, elbows and lips. This general rating is the last item in the test.
  
Classification
Focus, A-CA Affect: Cheerful Appearance
Time frame, mh last hour
Mode, ri rating by interviewer (of happy appearance)
Scale type, v verbal scale Range = 2
  
Used in studies
  
ReferenceNoelle-Neumann (1977): study XZ Germany West 1976 3-6
TitlePolitik und Glück. (Politics and Happiness).
Public16+ aged, general public, West-Germany, 1976
  
ReferenceNoelle-Neumann (1977): study XZ Germany West 1976 8-12
TitlePolitik und Glück. (Politics and Happiness).
PublicEmployed persons, West-Germany, 1976
  
ReferenceNoelle-Neumann (1977): study XZ Germany West 1976 spring
TitlePolitik und Glück. (Politics and Happiness).
Public14+ aged, general public, West-Germany, 1976