Kinney & Coyle (1992): study US 1992
Publication
- Author(s):
- Kinney, W.B.; Coyle, C.P.
- Title:
- Predicting Life Satisfaction Among Adults With Physical Disabilities.
- Source:
- Archives of Physical and Medical Rehabilitation, 1992, Vol. 73, 863 - 869
Investigation
- Public
- 18-55 aged, physically disabled, USA,1992
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 790
- Non Response
- 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
- Remarks:
- Mean computed by WDH-team
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.06 -
- SD:
- - -