Study Gorman (1971): study US 1970

Public

Undergraduate students, Nassau Community College, USA, 1970

Sample

Respondents

N = 67

Non Response

4%, 3% refusal, 1% incomplete information

Assessment

Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaires administered in class and daily records kept at home during 28 days

Correlate

Authors's Label

Elation vs depression

Our Classification

Remarks

Happiness measure type A-ARE

Operationalization

Selfreport on single question, answered every evening before retiring during six weeks (experience sampling)
On average;  how elated or depressed,  happy or unhappy you felt today....?
10 Complete elation, rapturous joy and soaring ecstasy
9  Very elated and in very high spirits.Tremendous delight and buoyancy
8  Elated and in high spirits
7  Feeling very good and cheerful
6  Feeling pretty good , "OK"
5  Feeling a little bit low. Just so-so
4  Spirits low and somewhat 'blue'
3  Depressed and feeling very low.  Definitely 'blue'
2  Tremendously depressed.
   Feeling terrible, really miserable, "just awful"
1  Utter depression and gloom. Completely down. All is black and leaden. Wish it were all over.

Name:  Wessman & Ricks'  `Elation - depression scale'

Observed Relation with Happiness