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Happiness Measures

Measures of Happiness: M-AO-m-mqr-n-9-a

Characteristics

Code:
M-AO-m-mqr-n-9-a
Focus:
Mixed: Affect + Overall (M-AO)
Time frame:
momentary (now) (m)
Mode:
multiple questions, repeated (mqr)
Scale Type:
numeric scale (n)
Scale Range:
9

Description

Self report on 3 questions, send as text message, several times a day during 13 days (experience sampling)

RIGHT NOW
A How happy do you feel?
B Are you enjoying what you do?
C How positive do you feel about your life?

1  not al all
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 extremely

Computation (A+B+C)/3

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Conner & Reid (2012): study NZ 2010 Psychology students participating in mood tracking experiment, New Zealand, 2010 N = 162