Charness & Grosskopf (2001): study ES 1998
Publication
- Author(s):
- Charness, G.; Grosskopf, B.
- Title:
- Relative Pay offs and Happiness: An Experimental Study.
- Source:
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2001, Vol. 45, 301 - 328
Investigation
- Public
- University students, Barcelona, Spain, 1998
- Sample
- Non-probability accidental sample
- Respondents
- N = 121
- Non Response
- 0 %
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaire and experiment
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
." In general how happy or unhappy do you usually feel....?"
Check the one statement that best describes your average happiness.
10 extremely happy (feeling ecstatic, joyous, fantastic)
9 very happy (feeling really good, elated)
8 pretty happy (spirits high, feeling good)
7 mildly happy (feeling fairly good and somewhat cheerful)
6 slightly happy (just a bit above neutral)
5 neutral (not particularly happy or unhappy)
4 slightly unhappy (just a bit below neutral)
3 mildly unhappy (just a little low)
2 pretty unhappy (somewhat "blue", spirits down)
1 very unhappy (depressed, spirits very low)
0 extremely unhappy (utterly depressed, completely down)
Fordyce Happiness Scale - Classification:
- A-AOL-g-sq-v-11-a
- Author's label:
- General level of happiness (GH)
- Page in publication:
- 308
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.95 -
- SD:
- - -
- Full text:
-
Self report on 3 questions:
"What percentage of the time would you say you are....?" (Percentages must add up to 100%)
1 happy
2 unhappy
3 neutral
Computation: Net Time Happy (NTH) % time happy - % time unhappy - Classification:
- A-TH-g-mq-th%-100-a
- Author's label:
- % of time Happy, Neutral, Unhappy
- Remarks:
- % of time Happy 43.1, Neutral 43.1, Unhappy 13.8
- Page in publication:
- 308
Correlational Findings
Egoistic
Preference for equal rights
Egoistic
Preference for equal rights