Lee et al. (1999a): study ZZ East-West pairs 1997

Publication

Author(s):: Lee, D.Y.; Park, S.H.; Patsula, P.; Uhlemann, M.R.
Title:: What Makes You Happy?: A Comparison of Self-Reported Criteria of Happiness between Two Cultures.
Source:: Social Indicators Research, 1999, Vol. 50, 351 - 362

Public: Canadian and Korean university students. 1997
Sample: Non-probability accidental sample
Respondents: N = 388
Non Response
Assessment: Interview: face-to-face
Open-ended questions. Questions read by a pair of graduate judges, classifying each response in 14 life goal categories. In case of disagreement between the judges, units were excluded from final data analysis.

Full text:: Self report on single question:

." In general how happy or unhappy do you usually feel....?"
Check the one statement that best describes your average happiness.
10  extremely happy (feeling ecstatic, joyous, fantastic)
9    very happy (feeling really good, elated)
8    pretty happy (spirits high, feeling good)
7    mildly happy (feeling fairly good and somewhat cheerful)
6    slightly happy (just a bit above neutral)
5    neutral (not particularly happy or unhappy)
4    slightly unhappy (just a bit below neutral)
3    mildly unhappy  (just a little low)
2    pretty unhappy (somewhat "blue", spirits down)
1    very unhappy (depressed, spirits very low)
0    extremely unhappy (utterly depressed, completely down)

Fordyce Happiness Scale
Classification:: A-AOL-g-sq-v-11-a
Author's label:: In general what makes you happy?
Page in publication:: 354
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics: On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:: 6.71 -
SD:: 1.49 -

Full text:: Self report on three questions:

'On the average, what percentage of the time do you feel….…' (percentages must add up to 100%)
1  happy
2  unhappy
3  neutral

Name: Fordyce % happy scale
Variant: % happy
Classification:: A-TH-g-mq-th%-101-aa
Author's label:: Percent of time happy
Remarks:: "On the average, what percent of the time do you feel happy?"
Page in publication:: 354
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics: On original range 0 - 100 On range 0-10
Mean:: 45.80 -
SD:: 20.66 -

Full text:: Self report on three questions:

'On the average, what percentage of the time d you feel….…' (percentages must add up to 100%)
1  happy
2  unhappy
3  neutral

Name: Fordyce % happy scale
Variant: % unhappy
Classification:: A-TH-g-mq-th%-101-ab
Author's label:: Percent measure of time feeling unhappy
Page in publication:: 356
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics: On original range 0 - 100 On range 0-10
Mean:: 19.44 -
SD:: 13.26 -