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Happiness Measures

Measures of Happiness: O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aj

Characteristics

Code:
O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aj
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:

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

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Borgatta et al. (1982): study US 1978 18+ aged general population USA, 1978 -1980 N = 2969