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Happiness Measures

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

Characteristics

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

At present how would you consider yourself.....?
3  very happy
2  pretty happy
1  not too happy

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Oishi & Kushlev (2018): study US 1972 18+ aged general public USA 1972-2014 N = 59599
Mean
= 2.194
SD
= 0.035