Study Andrews & Withey (1976): study US 1973 /2

Public

18+ aged, general public, USA, 1972-1973

Sample

Respondents

N = 2727

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
using highly structured questionnaires

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question, asked twice in interview:

How do you feel about your life as a whole......?
7  delighted
6  pleased
5  mostly satisfied
4  mixed
3  mostly dissatisfied
2  unhappy
1  terrible

Summation: arithmetic mean

Name: Andrews & Withey's "Delighted-Terrible Scale" (original version)
Also known as Lehman's 'Global life satisfaction'

Classification:

O-DT-u-sqt-v-7-a

Author's label:

Life3 (G3) + Life 1 (G1)

Page in publication:

208, 209

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0.01%,   2: 3%,   3: 3%,   4: 10%,   5: 36%,   6: 40%,   7: 8%   (total 100.01%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10

Mean:

5.36 7.30

SD:

0.99 -