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Happiness Measures

Measures of Happiness: A-AB-g-mq-v-2-a

Characteristics

Code:
A-AB-g-mq-v-2-a
Focus:
Affect: Affect Balance (Various) (A-AB)
Time frame:
generally (g)
Mode:
multiple questions (mq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
2

Description

Self report on 25 questions:

A: 11 positive items

B: 14 negative items

Rating:
1:  true
0:  false

Computation: (A:11) - (B:14)

Text of the items not available

Subscales of Telligen's Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), Positive Emotionality (Pem) and Negative Emotionality (Nem) and

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Watson & Slack (1993): study US Texas 1984 University personnel, United States, followed 4 years, 1984-1988 N = 82
Mean
= 2.310