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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
A-AOL-c-sq-v-5-a
Focus:
Affect: Average Overall Level (A-AOL)
Time frame:
currently (today, these days, presently) (c)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
5

Description

Self report on single question:

"How is your mood these days....?"
1  not good almost all the time
2  not good most of the time
3  sometimes good, sometimes not good
4  good most of the time
5  good almost all the time (or all the time)

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Abbey et al. (1994): study US Chicago 1980 Law school students, Chicago, USA, 198? N = 85