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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
O-DT-c-sq-v-6-a
Focus:
Overall: Delighted vs Terrible life (O-DT)
Time frame:
currently (today, these days, presently) (c)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
6

Description

Self report on single question:

How do you feel about your life at present?
1  terrible (very dissatisfied)
:
6  delighted (very satisfied)

Labels of intermediate response categories not reported

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Wnuk et al. (2012): study PL 2008 Cancer out-patients, Warsaw, Poland, 2008 N = 50
Mean
= 3.980
SD
= 1.150