Measures of Happiness: O-BW-c-sq-lg-11-b
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
List of Studies Using this Measure
Standard Deviation
- Mean
- = 5.467
- SD
- = 2.188
- Mean
- = 6.660
- SD
- = 2.094