Study Crandall (1976): study US Ohio 1973
- Public
- Adults, Toledo, USA, 1973
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 771
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Self raters: in groups in several sessions at centrally located churches during July 1973; Other raters: by mail.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Life as a whole
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- The purpose of the study was explained in a cover letter and confidentiality was stressed.
- Distribution
- N = 318
- Operationalization
- Participants were asked permission to contact two or three people "who know you pretty well" and provide the adresses. These peers were contacted by mail and asked to rate how the participant felt in 14 areas of life and about life as a whole.
Life as a whole was rated using the same question on which participants had rated their own happiness:
How do you think X feels about his/her life as a whole?
7 delighted
6 pleased
5 mostly satisfied
4 mixed
3 mostly dissatisfied
2 unhappy
1 terrible