London et al. (1977): study US 1972
Publication
- Author(s):
- London, M.; Crandall, R.; Seals, G.W.
- Title:
- The Contribution of Job and Leisure Satisfaction to Quality of Life.
- Source:
- Journal of Applied Psychology, 1977, Vol. 62, 328 - 334
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1972
- Survey name
- IR-National Survey QOL
- Sample
- Probability area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1297
- Non Response
- not reported
- 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:
- Quality of life
- Page in publication:
- 329, 330
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.59 2.65
- SD:
- 1.09 1.82