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
- Weeks feeling delighted
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Happiness measure type M-TH
- Operationalization
- Selfreport on single question
Think back over what your life has been like during the past ten weeks. It may help to try to remember some of the specific things that happened to you, or which you did during this period. Your answers should add up to ten weeks. For what part of that time did you feel delighted about your life as a whole?...pleased...most-
ly satisfied...mixed - about equally satisfied and disatisfied...mostly
dissatisfied...unhappy...terrible..
Measure: number of weeks felt delighted
Observed Relation with Happiness
at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.
O-DT asked first : r=+.30
O-DT asked second: r=+.40
O_DT asked third : r=+.30