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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ac
Focus:
Overall: Happiness in Life (O-HL)
Time frame:
currently (today, these days, presently) (c)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
3

Description

Self report on single question:

Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are....?
1   not too happy
2   relatively happy
3   very happy

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Bahr & Harvey (1980): study US 1972 Recently widowed miner`s wives and controls,USA, 1972 N = 222