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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
A-BF-md-mq-v-5-c
Focus:
Affect: Balance (Fredrickson Differential Emotion Scale (A-BF)
Time frame:
last day (md)
Mode:
multiple questions (mq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
5

Description

Self report on 16 questions:

During the past week I felt ..
A  joyful
B  grateful
C  amused
D  content
E  proud
F  pride
G  loving
H  hopeful
I   interested
J  angry
K  sad
L  afraid
M  ashamed
N  contemptuous
O  guilty
P  disgusted

Rated
0  never
1  
2
3  
4  most of the time

Computation: (Average A to I) - (Average J to P)

Name: Fredrickson et. al (2003) Differential Emotions Scale  (mDES) Last week variant

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Cheung et al. (2017a): study US 2011 Women with metastatic breast cancer, USA, 2011-2014 N = 30
Mean
= 1.100