Study Wessman (1956): study US 1946
- Public
- 21+ aged, general public, USA, 1946
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2377
- Non Response
- -
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Perceived major factor in people's happiness
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Operationalization
- Open-ended question: "What one thing would you say makes people happy more than anything else?"
0: Not mentioned
1: Mentioned
a. Marriage, family, children, having happy home life
b. Understanding people, making other people happy, being unselfisch
c. Contented, being adjusted to one's surroundings, freedom from worry
d. Health
e. Money, having enough to get along on
f. Getting along with people, congeniality good friends
g. Success in chosen work, achievement security
h. Religion, obeying God's will
i. Love, affection
j. Having fun, enjoyment
k. No opinion