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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
M-TH-cw-sq-v-4-aa
Focus:
Mixed: Time Happy (M-TH)
Time frame:
last week (cw)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
4

Description

Self report on single questions:

"Please tell me how often you have felt this way during the past week...?"
I was happy
1  rarely or none of the time
2  some or a little of the time
3  occasionally or a moderate amount of time
4  most of the time

Item in CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression) Scale

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Bericat (2016): study ZZ Europe 2006 /1 15-65 aged general public, 25 European nations, 2006 N = 43000
Mean
= 2.940
SD
= 0.780