Diener et al. (1995c): study US 1991
Publication
- Author(s):
- Diener, E.; Fujita, F.; Smith, H.L.
- Title:
- The Personality Structure of Affect.
- Source:
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995, Vol. 69, 130 - 141
Investigation
- Public
- College students, USA, 1991-1992
- Sample
- Non-probability chunk sample
- Respondents
- N = 212
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Multiple assesment methods
Mixed methods:questionnaire, informant rating and experience sampling
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report of daily mood on 24 questions
'Please indicate how much of each emotion you felt in the past month'
A LOVE
Aa Affection
Ab love
Ac caring
Ab fondness
B JOY
Ba joy
Bb happiness
Bc contentment
Bd pride
C FEAR
Ca fear
Cb worry
Cc anxiety
Cd nervous
D ANGER
Da anger
Db irritation
Dc disgust
Dd rage
E SHAME
Ea shame
Eb guilt
Ec regret
Ed embarrassment
F SADNESS
Fa sadness
Fb loneliness
Fc unhappiness
Fd depression
Answer options:
1 not at all
2 very slight
3 somewhat
4 moderate amount
5 much
6 very much
7 extremely much
Options presented horizontally
Computation: average A+B minus average C+D+E+F - Classification:
- A-BD3-cm-mqr-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Sel-report of daily mood
- Remarks:
- Affect Balance Scale(ABS) was not reported. We computed ABS by substracting NA from PA
- Page in publication:
- 135
- Error estimates:
- Alpha: Love = .85, Joy = .79, Fear = .84, Anger = .82, Shame = .78, Sadness = .80
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range -6 - 6 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- - -
- SD:
- - -
- Full text:
-
Self report of daily mood on 24 questions
'Please indicate how much of each emotion you felt today'
A LOVE
Aa Affection
Ab love
Ac caring
Ab fondness
B JOY
Ba joy
Bb happiness
Bc contentment
Bd pride
C FEAR
Ca fear
Cb worry
Cc anxiety
Cd nervous
D ANGER
Da anger
Db irritation
Dc disgust
Dd rage
E SHAME
Ea shame
Eb guilt
Ec regret
Ed embarrassment
F SADNESS
Fa sadness
Fb loneliness
Fc unhappiness
Fd depression
Answer options:
1 not at all
2 very slight
3 somewhat
4 moderate amount
5 much
6 very much
7 extremely much
Options presented horizontally
Computation: average A+B minus average C+D+E+F - Classification:
- A-BD3-md-mqr-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Daily experience sampling of mood
- Remarks:
- Affect Balance Scale (ABS) was not reported. We computed ABS by substracting NA from PA
- Page in publication:
- 135
- Error estimates:
- Alpha: Love = .93, Joy = .80, Fear = .91, Anger = .91, Shame = .94, Sadness = .93
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range -6 - 6 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- - -
- SD:
- - -
- Full text:
-
Rating by family and peers of daily mood on 24 questions
'Please indicate how much of each emotion Ss felt today'
A LOVE
Aa Affection
Ab love
Ac caring
Ab fondness
B JOY
Ba joy
Bb happiness
Bc contentment
Bd pride
C FEAR
Ca fear
Cb worry
Cc anxiety
Cd nervous
D ANGER
Da anger
Db irritation
Dc disgust
Dd rage
E SHAME
Ea shame
Eb guilt
Ec regret
Ed embarrassment
F SADNESS
Fa sadness
Fb loneliness
Fc unhappiness
Fd depression
Answer options:
1 not at all
2 very slight
3 somewhat
4 moderate amount
5 much
6 very much
7 extremely much
Options presented horizontally
Computation: average A+B minus average C+D+E+F - Classification:
- A-BD3-g-rdv-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Informant reports of daily mood
- Remarks:
- Affect Balance Scale ABS) was not reported. We computed ABS by substracting NA from PA
- Error estimates:
- Alpha: Love = .90, Joy = .77, Fear = .84, Anger = .85, Shame = .82, Sadness = .87
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range -6 - 6 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- - -
- SD:
- - -