Rosenfield (1997): study US 1988
Publication
- Author(s):
- Rosenfield, S.
- Title:
- Labelling Mental Illness: The Effects of Received Services and Perceived Stigma on Life Satisfaction.
- Source:
- American Sociological Review, 1997, Vol. 62, 660 - 672
Investigation
- Public
- 20-70 Chronic mental patients, USA, 1989,
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 157
- Non Response
- 7%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
By clinical psychologists and psychiatric nurses.
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
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:
- Overall Subjective Quality of Lfe
- Page in publication:
- 664
- Error estimates:
- Alpha=+ .85