Characteristics

Code:

O-DT-u-sqt-v-7-b

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  could not be better
6  
5  
4  
3  
2  
1  could not be worse

Summation: arithmetic mean

Name: Andrews & Withey's "Delighted-Terrible Scale" (original version).
Also known as Lehman's 'Global life satisfaction'