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Happiness Measures

Measures of Happiness: O-DT-h-sq-v-7-a

Characteristics

Code:
O-DT-h-sq-v-7-a
Focus:
Overall: Delighted vs Terrible life (O-DT)
Time frame:
hitherto (h)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
7

Description

Self report on single question:

How do you assess your life so far, has it been…?
7  fantastic
6  successful
5  quite good
4  neither good, nor bad
3  not great
2  unhappy
1  terrible

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Swider et al. (2017): study PL 2016 Transgender people, Poland, 2016 N = 7074
Mean
= 4.690
SD
= 1.260