Characteristics

Code:

O-BW-c-sq-lg-11-b

Focus:

Overall: Best-Worst ever experienced (O-BW)

Time frame:

currently (today, these days, presently) (c)

Mode:

1 question (sq)

Scale Type:

life-graph (lg)

Scale Range:

11

Description

Self report on single question:

Taking all together and comparing with your happiest and unhappiest periods in life, how are you doing?
Answers rated on a graph:
-5  |  unhappiest period
-4  |
-3  |
-2  |
-1  |
0  | -----------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|                     
+1 |            T1            T2               T3             T4
+2 |
+3 |
+4 |
+5 | happiest period

T1:  Before retirement
T2:  At the moment of retirement
T3:  A years after retirement
T4:  the last two weeks

Name: ACSA (Anamnestic Comparative Self Assessment)
Retrospections and current assessment plotted in a time graph. Only recent rating taken as happiness