Study Charness & Grosskopf (2001): study ES 1998

Public:

University students, Barcelona, Spain, 1998

Sample:

Respondents:

N = 121

Non Response:

0 %

Assessment:

Multiple asesment methods
Questionnaire and experiment

Correlate

Authors's label

Momentary happiness (MH)

Our Classification

Remarks

Assessed after assigning roles in a partition experiment. Mood is slightly higher among Ss in passive role (6,45) than in active role (6,07)

Distribution

MH = 6.26

Operationalization

Selfreport on single question:
"How do you feel right now? 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 litle low)
2    pretty unhappy (somewhat "blue", spirits down)
1    very unhappy (depressed, spirits very low)
0    extremely unhappy (utterly depressed, completely down)

Observed Relation with Happiness