Study Bakker et al. (2020): study NL 2011

Public

Returning users of a happiness self-help website, Netherlands, 2011-2015

Survey name

NL-GeluksWijzer

Sample

Respondents

N = 5411

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)
Happiness self-help tool box

Correlate

Authors's Label

Use of Happiness-Comparer

Our Classification

Remarks

Participants received periodical an e-mail with a link to a website on which they recorded - how happy they feel today - how happy they had felt over the last month Users then received instant feelback on how other users of the website feel - how happy all other users felt on average - how users of the same age, sexe and education felt All rating made on a 10-step faces scale Next to this 'Happines-Comparer' the website provided the 'Happiness-Diary', which is an internet application of the Day Reconstructioin Method (DRM, Kahneman et a. 2004)

Distribution

Range: 2-36, M = 3,53; SD = 3,62
Average time beetween first and last use 233 days

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Number of times the Happiness-Comparer was used

Observed Relation with Happiness