Characteristics

Code:

C-RA-c-mq-l-21-a

Focus:

Contentment: Realization of Aspirations (C-RA)

Time frame:

currently (today, these days, presently) (c)

Mode:

multiple questions (mq)

Scale Type:

ladder scale (l)

Scale Range:

21

Description

Difference between self reports of ideal and real life:

A: Ideal life, the best life one could hope for
B: Real life, rating of present life
Full items not reported

Both items rated on a  21 step ladder scale:
20  best possible life, the most wonderful life you could imagine for anybody
.
.
.
0  worst possible life

Computation: Gap = A-B