Study Luhmann et al. (2014): study US 2013

Public

18-79 aged, general public, USA, 2013

Sample

Respondents

N = 414

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Valence of thoughs when answering question on happiness

Our Classification

Remarks

The content of each thought was coded, i.e. assigned, to a domain (f.e. 'family') by 2 independent decoders to enable quantification of the answers. Domains were career, family, romantic relationships, friends, income, leisure, housing and health

Distribution

The number of sources mentioned had a Mean= 2.97 and S.D.=1.41.

Operationalization

After completion of the happiness measure respondents were asked to list thoughts/events they have been thinking about answering the happiness questions. R espondents were asked to indicate whether each response was positive. Negative, both or neither. The answers were later classified as:
a Purely positive
b Purely negative
c Ambivalent
d Neutral

Observed Relation with Happiness