Study Wessman & Ricks (1966): study US 1957

Public

Female college students, Radcliff USA, followed 6 weeks, 1957

Sample

Respondents

N = 21

Non Response

16%

Assessment

Diary
Mood diary kept 30 days.

Correlate

Authors's Label

Fulness vs emptinessof life

Our Classification

Operationalization

Repeated closed question on 'how emo- tionally satisfying, abundant or empty, your life felt today', rated on a 10-point scale:

10. Consumate fulfillment and abundance
9. Replete with life's abundant good-
    ness.
8. Filled with warm feelings of con-
    tentment and satisfaction.
7. My life is ample and satisfying.
6. Life seems fairly adequate and re-
    latively satisfying.
5. Some slight sense of lack, vague
    and mildly troubling.
4. My life seems deficient, dissatis-
    fying.
3. Life is pretty empty and barren.
2. Desolate, drained dry, impoverish-
    ed.
1. Gnawing sense of emptiness, hollow-
    ness, void.

Scale scored each night for the highest, lowest and average experience of the day.
(Wessman & Ricks Fullness vs Emptiness of life Scale)

Observed Relation with Happiness