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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
O-SL?-?-sq-v-4-h
Focus:
Overall: Satisfaction With Life: item not reported (O-SL?)
Time frame:
time frame not reported* (?)
Mode:
1 question (sq)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
4

Description

Self report on a single question:

satisfaction overall life (full text not reported)
4  very satisfied
3  mostly satisfied
2  somewhat dissatisfied
1  very dissatisfied

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Kemp & Krause (1999): study US California 1994 Post-polio and Spinal cord injury and controls, California, USA 199? N = 360
Mean
= 3.120
Kemp & Krause (1999): study US California 1994 /1 Spinal cord injury patients, Southern California, USA, 199? N = 177
Mean
= 2.900
SD
= 0.800
Kemp & Krause (1999): study US California 1994 /2 Post-polio patients, California, USA, 199? N = 121
Mean
= 3.200
SD
= 0.700