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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
M-TH-g-sq-v-5-a
Focus:
Mixed: Time Happy (M-TH)
Time frame:
generally (g)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
5

Description

Self report on single question:

Underline  the sentence which comes nearest to the truth:
"I am ..........."
1    almost always unhappy
2    more often unhappy than happy
3    about as often happy as unhappy
4    more often happy then unhappy
5    almost always happy

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Iisager (1948): study DK 1946 Adult college students, Denmark, 1946-47 N = 113