Andrews & Withey (1976): study US 1973
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, USA, 1973/3
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1433
- Non Response
- 26%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
using highly structured questionnaires
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
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
Name: Andrews & Withey's `Delighted-Terrible Scale' (original version) - Classification:
- O-DT-u-sq-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Life1 (and Life2) (G1-G2)
- Page in publication:
- 209
- Error estimates:
- Reliability: repeat-reliability (correlation between scores on the same questions asked twice during the interview): r=+.68 Validity:
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1%, 2: 2%, 3: 2%, 4: 12%, 5: 39%, 6: 34%, 7: 10% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.30 7.17
- SD:
- 1.05 1.75
- Full text:
-
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:
- Life3 (G3)
- Remarks:
- Combination of two ratings on 7-step scale results in 14 steps, with the following frequencies
7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0
% % % % % % % % % % % % %
6.8 8.7 23.9 19.2 22.4 8.0 6.4 1.4 1.1 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.4 - Page in publication:
- 311
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.40 7.33
- SD:
- - -
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
"Here is a picture of a ladder. At the bottom of the ladder is the worst life you might reasonably expect to have. At the top is the best life you might expect to have. Of course, life from week to week falls somewhere in between. Where was your life most of the time during the past year?"
[ 9 ] best life you might expect to have
[ 8 ]
[ 7 ]
[ 6 ]
[ 5 ]
[ 4 ]
[ 3 ]
[ 2 ]
[ 1 ] worst life you might expect to have
Name: Cantril's self anchoring ladder rating (modified version) - Classification:
- C-BW-cy-sq-l-9-a
- Author's label:
- Ladder (G6)
- Page in publication:
- 209
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1%, 2: 2%, 3: 3%, 4: 7%, 5: 23%, 6: 23%, 7: 23%, 8: 11%, 9: 7% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 9 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.07 6.34
- SD:
- 1.63 2.03
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
"Here are some circles that we can imagine represent the lives of different people. Circle eight has all pluses in it, to represent a person who has all the good things in his life. Circle zero has all minuses in it, to represent a person who has all the bad things in his life. Other circles are in between. Which circle do you think comes closest to matching your life?"
(circles not reproduced here )
8 + + + + + + + +
7 + + + + + + + -
6 + + + + + + - -
5 + + + + + - - -
4 + + + + - - - -
3 + + + - - - - -
2 + + - - - - - -
2 + - - - - - - -
0 - - - - - - - -
Name: Andrews & Withey's 'Circles Scale' - Classification:
- O-GBB-u-sq-c-9-a
- Author's label:
- Circles (G7)
- Page in publication:
- 209
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 11%, 2: 15%, 3: 27%, 4: 20%, 5: 22%, 6: 3%, 7: 1%, 8: 0%, 9: 1% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 8 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.53 8.16
- SD:
- 1.51 1.89