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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
M-TH-?-sq-v-5-b
Focus:
Mixed: Time Happy (M-TH)
Time frame:
time frame not reported* (?)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
5

Description

Self report on single question:

I feel happy
1  almost never
2
3
4
5  most of the time

Labels of response options 2, 3 and 4 not reported

Item in EPOCH wellbeing scale (Kern et al 2015)

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Wells et al. (2009): study AU 1998 48-73 aged, followed 3 years before and after retirement, Australia, 1998-2002 N = 444