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Happiness Measures

Measures of Happiness: C-BW-?-sq-?-11-a

Characteristics

Code:
C-BW-?-sq-?-11-a
Focus:
Contentment: Best-Worst possible life (C-BW)
Time frame:
time frame not reported* (?)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
scale not reported (?)
Scale Range:
11

Description

Self report on single question:

…how things are going in your life.. (full item not reported)
0  the worst possible life you could imagine
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2
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5
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9
10 the best possible life you could imagine

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Burger & Veenhoven (2016): study MA 2016 15+ aged, general public, Morocco, 2016 N = 967
Mean
= 5.400
Ryff & Keyes (1995): study US 1990 25+ aged, USA, 199? N = 1108
Mean
= 7.700
SD
= 1.600