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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
M-PL-c-sq-v-5-a
Focus:
Mixed: Pleasure in Life (M-PL)
Time frame:
currently (today, these days, presently) (c)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
5

Description

Self report on single question:

During the past 4 weeks, did you enjoy life?
1  never
2  seldom
3  quite often
4  very often
5  always

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Petersen-Ewert et al. (2005): study ZZ Europe 2003 8-16 aged chronic patients, 7 EU countries, 2003 N = 360
Mean
= 4.450
SD
= 0.790