Characteristics
- Code:
- O-HL---sq-vt-7-a
- Focus:
- Overall: Happiness in Life (O-HL)
- Time frame:
- various time frames (*)
- Mode:
- 1 question (sq)
- Scale Type:
- verbal scales transformed to same range (vt)
- Scale Range:
- 7
Description
Self report on single questionVarious items using the term happiness
Responses transformed to common 0 to 10 scale
- scores on verbal response scales transformed using Thurstone's technique of expert weighing
- scores on numerical scales shorter than 11 step transformed by linear stretching
0-10 scores next transformed linearly to range 1-7