Characteristics

Code:

A-ARE-md-mq-th%-100-a

Focus:

Affect: Average Repeated Overall Estimate (A-ARE)

Time frame:

last day (md)

Mode:

multiple questions (mq)

Scale Type:

percent of time happy (th%)

Scale Range:

100

Description

Self report on three questions: answered every evening before retiring during 3 weeks:
A  what percentage of the time you were awake today did you feel happy?
B  what percentage did you feel unhappy?
C  what percentage did you feel neither happy nor unhappy

Respondents were told that the three percentages should add up to equal 100%.