Sullivan et al. (1991): study US 1988
Publication
- Author(s):
- Sullivan, G.; Leake, B.; Wells, K.B.
- Title:
- Quality of Life of Seriously Mentally Ill Persons in Mississippi.
- Source:
- Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 1991, Vol. 42, 752 -755
Investigation
- Public
- Former inpatients of mental hospital, Mississipi, 1988
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive-expert sample
- Respondents
- N = 130
- Non Response
- 22%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
At home by mental health case managers
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
How do you feel about your life as a whole.....?
7 delighted
6 pleased
5 mostly satisfied
4 mixed
3 mostly dissatisfied
2 unhappy
1 terrible
Name: Andrews & Withey's `Delighted-Terrible Scale' (original version) - Classification:
- O-DT-u-sq-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Life in general
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.30 7.17
- SD:
- - -
Correlational Findings
Schizophrenic (f20)