Lehman (1988): study US 1981
Publication
- Author(s):
- Lehman, A.F.
- Title:
- A Quality of Life Interview for the Chronically Mentally Ill.
- Source:
- Evaluation and Program Planning, 1988, Vol. 11, 51 - 62
Investigation
- Public
- Chronic mental patients, USA,1981
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 469
- 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
- Author's label:
- General life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 55
- Error estimates:
- Inter item corelation: r=+.76 one week test-retest : r=+.71(N=45) Rochester population