Study Wessman & Ricks (1966): study US 1957 /1

Public

Male college students, followed 3 years, Harvard University, USA, 1957-60

Sample

Respondents

N = 17

Non Response

37%: 9 dropouts, incomplete; about the same happiness distribution.

Assessment

Multiple assesment methods
Mood diary kept 30 days and repeated interviews and tests during three years.

Correlate

Authors's Label

Happy life history

Our Classification

Remarks

Assessed 6 months after entering college

Operationalization

Clinical rank on 'happy - unhappy life story', stressing auto-biographic re- ports and information for three years, concerning past life experiences up to the time of entering college.

Observed Relation with Happiness