Brenner (1975a): study US Washington County, Maryland 1973
Publication
- Author(s):
- Brenner, B.
- Title:
- Quality of Affect and Self-Evaluated Happiness.
- Source:
- Social Indicators Research, 1975, Vol. 2, 315 - 331
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Washington County, Maryland, USA, 1973-1974
- Sample
- Probability cluster sample
- Respondents
- N = 916
- Non Response
- 25%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
- Author's label:
- Self evaluated happiness
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 6%, 2: 59%, 3: 35% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.29 7.45
- SD:
- 0.57 1.48
- Full text:
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Self report on 2 questions:
A. "How often do you feel that you are really enjoying life? Would you say.......?"
5 very often
4 fairly often
3 occasionally
2 rarely
1 never
B. "How often do you feel downcast or dejected? Would you say....."
1 very often
2 fairly often
3 occasionally
4 rarely
5 never
Summation: Average A + B
Name: Brenner's `Two Component Quality of Affect Scale' - Classification:
- A-BBr-g-mq-v-5-b
- Author's label:
- Quality of affect
- Remarks:
- 80% often, 16% occasionally, 4% rarely enjoys life.
- Full text:
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Self report on 3 questions:
A. "How often do you feel that you are really enjoying life? Would you say:
5 very often,
4 fairly often,
3 occasionally,
2 rarely,
1 never."
B. "How often do you feel downcast or dejected?
Would you say:
1 very often,
2 fairly often,
3 occasionally,
4 rarely
5 never.
C. "In general how would you say you feel most of the time? Would you say:
5 very good spirits,
4 fairly good spirits,
3 neither good spirits nor low spirits,
2 fairly low spirits,
1 very low spirits.
Summation: average A , B and C
Name: Brenner's `Three component Quality of Affect Scale' - Classification:
- A-BBr-g-mq-v-5-a
- Author's label:
- Quality of affect
- Error estimates:
- Reliability: Equivalence: item 1 & 2: G = -.52 (001); item 2 & 3: G = -.56 (001); item 1 & 3: G = +.78 (001) Validity:
- Full text:
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Self report on 2 questions:
"Please tell me how often you have felt this way during the past week ...?"
A I felt happy
B I felt sad
Answer options:
1 rarely or none of the time
2 some or a little of the time
3 occasionally or a moderate amount of time
4 most of the time
Summation: average score on A (positive) and B (negative)
Name: Brenner's `Happy/Sad Scale' - Classification:
- A-BBr-cw-mq-v-4-c
- Author's label:
- Quality of affect
- Error estimates:
- Reliability: Equivalence: G = -.52 (.001) Validity:
- Full text:
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Self report on 2 questions:
Please tell me how often you have felt this way during the past week ....?"
A I enjoyed life
B I felt depressed
Answer options:
1 really none of the time
2 some or a little of the time
3 occasionally or a moderate amount of the time
4 most of the time
Summation: average scores on A and B
Name: Brenner's `Enjoyed/Depressed Scale' - Classification:
- A-BBr-cw-mq-v-4-a
- Author's label:
- Quality of affect
- Error estimates:
- Reliability: Equivalence: G = -.72 (.001) Validity: