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

Receptivity towards the world

Our Classification

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Repeated closed question on 'how inte- rested and responsive you felt to what was going on around you', rated on a 10-point scale:

10. Passionately absorbed in the
    world's excitement. My sensations
    and feelings incredibly intensi-
    fied.
9. Tremendously stimulated. Enormously
    receptive.
8. Senses lively. Great interest and
    delight in everything around me.
7. Open and responsive to my world and
    its happenings.
6. Moderately interested and fairly
    responsive.
5. Slightly disinterested and unres-
    ponsive.
4. Bored. Life pretty monotonous and
    uninteresting.
3. Dull and apathetic. Almost no inte-
    rest or desire for anything.
2. Mired down in apathy. My only desi-
    re is to shut out the world.
1. Life is too much trouble. Sick of
    everything, want only oblivion.

Scale scored each night for the highest, lowest and average experience of the day.
(Wessman & Ricks Receptivity towards and Stimulatiton by the World Scale)

Observed Relation with Happiness