Kousha & Mohseni (2000): study IR 1995
Publication
- Author(s):
- Kousha, M.; Mohseni, N.
- Title:
- Are Iranians Happy? A Comparative Study between Iran and the United States.
- Source:
- Social Indicators Research, 2000, Vol. 52, 259 - 289
Investigation
- Public
- Residents big city (Tehran), Iran, 1995-97
- Sample
- Non-probability snowball sample
- Respondents
- N = 1561
- Non Response
- 4,8%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are...?
3 very happy
2 fairly happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab
- Author's label:
- very happy to being upset
- Remarks:
- Note a: Measured values 1995 and 1997 combined
Note b: Straightforward translation could not be used in Farsi, the Iranian national language. The keyword used is "khoshhal". The answer categories were labeled as: "very happy"; "more or less happy" (as equivalent to fairly happy) and "being upset" using the term "narahat" (equivalent for "not too happy) that emphases the good-life dimensions of happiness. - Page in publication:
- 261
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 10.7%, 2: 60%, 3: 29.3% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.19 7.06
- SD:
- 0.60 1.61