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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
O-HL-c-sq-v-3-c
Focus:
Overall: Happiness in Life (O-HL)
Time frame:
currently (today, these days, presently) (c)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
3

Description

Self report on single question:

Taking all things into account, how happy would you say you
are these days.....?
1  not too happy
2  moderately happy
3  very happy

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Shmotkin & Hadari (1996): study IL 1991 60+ aged, Israel, 1991 N = 830