Study Bakker & Landsmeer (1985): study NL 1985

Public

15+ aged, general public, The Netherlands, 1985

Sample

Probability simple random sample

Respondents

N = 1500

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Highly structured

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:

Self report on single question:

I have a lot of pleasure in my life
1 totally disagree
2
3
4
5 totally agree

Classification:

M-PL-u-sq-n-5-a

Author's label:

Pleasure

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 1%,   2: 6%,   3: 6%,   4: 60%,   5: 29%   (total 102%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10

Mean:

4.08 -

SD:

0.81 -