Study Andrews & Withey (1976): study US 1973 /1
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1973/7
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 222
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Using highly structured questionnaires.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Feeling about life as a whole Faces: whole life_C
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Happiness measure M-AO
- Operationalization
- Selfreport on single question:
Which (of the faces) best described how you feel about your life as a whole?
7 completely happy
6
5
4 neither happy nor unhappy
3
2
1 completely unhappy
Rated on pictorial faces-scale
Observed Relation with Happiness
at the beginning, in the middle and at the end
Correlation with M-AO (asked once)
O-DT asked first : r=+.60
O-DT asked second: r=+.60
O-DT asked third : r=+.50