Kaliterna Lipovcan & Prizmic-Larsen (2016): study HR 2008
Publication
- Author(s):
- Kaliterna Lipovcan, L.J.; Prizmic-Larsen, Z.
- Title:
- What Differs between Happy and Unhappy People?
- Source:
- Springerplus, 2016, Vol. 5, 225 - 240
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged happy and unhappy people, Croatia, 2008
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 800
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
The respondents were told that responses were anonymous
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
"Generally speaking, how (much) do you feel happy? What score do you give if we put ten for 'extremely happy, zero for extremely unhappy' and five for neither happy nor unhappy'?"
10 extremely happy
9
8
7
6
5 neither happy nor unhappy
4
3
2
1
0 extremely unhappy - Classification:
- M-FH-g-sq-n-11-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 7
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole nowadays?
0 extremely dissatisfied
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 extremely satisfied
- don't know
- no answer - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- Happy group: Mean = 8.9, SD = 1.77
Unhappy group: Mean = 3.2, SD = 2.08 - Page in publication:
- 7