Rivera et al. (2015): study AW 2010

Publication

Author(s):

Rivera, M.; Croes, R.; Lee, S.H.

Title:

Tourism Development and Happiness: A Residents ’ Perspective.

Source:

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management. 2015, 1 -12

Investigation

Public

18+ aged general public, Aruba, 2010

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Non-probability purposive-quota sample

Respondents

N = 1200

Non Response

23,9%

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Assumed by WDH team.

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:

Self report on single question:

In general I consider myself as
1  a very unhappy person
2
3
4
5
6
7  a very happy person

Item in Lyubomirsky & Lepper's 'Subjective Happiness Scale' (SHS)

Classification:

O-HP-g-sq-n-7-a

Author's label:

Subjective Happiness

Page in publication:

6

Observed distribution

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10

Mean:

4.02 5.03

SD:

1.00 1.67