| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Moriwaki, S.Y. |
| Title | The Affect Balance Scale: A Validity Study with Aged Samples. |
| Source | Journal of Gerontology, 1974, Vol. 29, 73 - 78 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 60+ aged, psychiatric cases and controls, Los Angeles, USA, 1971 |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Sample | Not available |
| 1. Psychiatric outpatients group: Non-probability purposive sample by expert choice of psychiatric outpatients from 2 mental health (controls) clinics during a 4-months period. 2. Normal community subjects: Non-probability purposive sample by expert choice of Lutheran Church members judged to be physically and mentally healthy and without prior psychiatric hospital experience. Age 60+; sample 1 predominantly males (63%), sample 2 predominantly females (63%) | |
| Respondents N = | 27 |
| sample 1: N=8, sample 2: N=19 | |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Structured interview | |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on 10 questions: "Looking at your present life situation, have you felt....?" (yes/no) A Particularly exited, or interested in something? B So restless that you could not sit long in a chair? C Proud because someone complimented you on something you had done? D Very lonely or remote from people? E Pleased about having accomplished something? F Bored? G On top of the world? H Depressed? I That things were going your way? J Upset because someone critized you? Response options scoring - yes = 1 - no = 0 Summation: Positive Affect Score (PAS): summed scores on A,C,E,G,I Negative Affect Score (NAS): summed scores B,D,F,H,J Affect Balance Score (ABS): PAS minus NAS Possible range: -5 to +5 Name: Bradburn's ' Affect Balance Scale' (modified version) |
| Classification | A-BB-c-mq-v-2-a |
| Author's label | Psychological well-being. |
| Error estimates | Equivalence (data from sample 2): positive affects score x negative affect score: r = -.32 (ns) |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Taking all together: how happy would you say you are? Would you say you are? 3 very happy 2 pretty happy 1 not too happy |
| Classification | O-HL-u-sq-v-3-a |
| Author's label | Psychological well-being. |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Affect balance | H07aa02b | O-HL by A-AB |
| Mental health | H16ab01 | Being in treatment for mental disorder (vs not) |
| Mental health | H13ab | Current general mental health , also classified as above ↑ |
| Mental health | H16ab04a | In ambulatory treatment, also classified as above ↑ |