Campbell (1976): study US 1971
Publication
- Author(s):
- Campbell, A.
- Title:
- Subjective Measures of Well-Being.
- Source:
- American Psychologist, 1976, Vol. 31, 117 - 124
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, United States, 1971
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability systematic sample
- Respondents
- N = 2164
- Non Response
- 0
- 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
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 1%, 2: 2%, 3: 4%, 4: 11%, 5: 20%, 6: 40%, 7: 22% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.55 7.58
- SD:
- 1.26 2.10