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
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Multiple assesment methods
Mood diary kept 30 days and repeated interviews and tests during three years.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Projective happiness
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Over-all score on a scheme of 15 posi- tive and 15 negative variables indica- tive of happy - unhappy themes, using stories that were told to the Standard Thematic Apperception Test cards (see Murray, 1943).