Andrews & Withey (1976): study US 1972
Publication
- Author(s):
- Andrews, F.M.; Withey, S.B.
- Title:
- Social Indicators of Well-Being. Americans Perceptions of Life Quality.
- Source:
- Plenum Press, 1976, New York, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1972
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1433
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question, asked twice in interview:
How do you feel about your life as a whole......?
7 delighted
6 pleased
5 mostly satisfied
4 mixed
3 mostly dissatisfied
2 unhappy
1 terrible
Summation: arithmetic mean
Name: Andrews & Withey's "Delighted-Terrible Scale" (original version)
Also known as Lehman's 'Global life satisfaction' - Classification:
- O-DT-u-sqt-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Life 3
- Remarks:
- Originally 14 step (summed) score reduced to 7.
- Page in publication:
- 311
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.4%, 2: 1.1%, 3: 1.7%, 4: 7.8%, 5: 30.4%, 6: 43.1%, 7: 15.5% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.58 7.63
- SD:
- 1.01 1.69