Study Seidlitz & Diener (1993): study US 1988

Public

Psychology undergraduate, students, University of Illinois, USA, 198?

Sample

Respondents

N = 420

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Questionnaire completed in class

Correlate

Authors's Label

Balance of recalled life-events (free recall)

Our Classification

Operationalization

Subjects were asked to recall and list as many positive and negative life-events as they could in 3 minutes.

The order of positive and negative recal tests was randomly varied across groups of Ss

Observed Relation with Happiness