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Happiness Measures

Measures of Happiness: O-HL-c-sq-v-4-w

Characteristics

Code:
O-HL-c-sq-v-4-w
Focus:
Overall: Happiness in Life (O-HL)
Time frame:
currently (today, these days, presently) (c)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
4

Description

Self report on single question:

Do you think 'I am happy now'
1  I do not think so
2  I hardly think so
3  I think so
4  I quite think so

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Tanaka et al. (2006): study JP 2000 Adult visitors of a health check center, Japan, 2000-2002 N = 6597
Mean
= 2.890
SD
= 0.720