Measures of Happiness: O-DT-u-sqt-v-7-a
Characteristics
- Code:
- O-DT-u-sqt-v-7-a
- Focus:
- Overall: Delighted vs Terrible life (O-DT)
- Time frame:
- time unspecified (u)
- Mode:
- 1 question, asked twice (sqt)
- Scale Type:
- verbal scale (v)
- Scale Range:
- 7
Description
Self report on single question, asked twice in interview:How do you feel about your life as a whole......?
7 delighted
6 pleased
5 mostly satisfied
4 mixed
3 mostly dissatisfied
2 unhappy
1 terrible
Summation: arithmetic mean
Name: Andrews & Withey's "Delighted-Terrible Scale" (original version)
Also known as Lehman's 'Global life satisfaction'
List of Studies Using this Measure
Standard Deviation
- Mean
- = 2.340
- SD
- = 0.870
- Mean
- = 2.590
- SD
- = 1.090
- Mean
- = 3.730
- SD
- = 1.380
- Mean
- = 4.250
- SD
- = 1.450
- Mean
- = 4.790
- SD
- = 1.060
- Mean
- = 4.930
- SD
- = 1.650
- Mean
- = 5.060
- Mean
- = 5.250
- Mean
- = 5.300
- Mean
- = 5.360
- SD
- = 0.990
- Mean
- = 5.400
- Mean
- = 5.500
- SD
- = 0.910
- Mean
- = 5.550
- SD
- = 1.260
- Mean
- = 5.580
- SD
- = 1.012