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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
O-HL-u-sq-v-4-x
Focus:
Overall: Happiness in Life (O-HL)
Time frame:
time unspecified (u)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
4

Description

Self report on single question:

Everything taken into consideration how happy or unhappy will you say you are?
4 very happy
3 really happy
2 not particularly happy
1 not at all happy
- do not know
- no answer

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Lolle & Veenhoven (2019): study DK 2007 Adults, age range not reported, general public, Denmark, 2007 N = 1330
Mean
= 3.237
SD
= 0.552