Smith (1979): study US 1957
Publication
- Author(s):
- Smith, T.W.
- Title:
- Happiness: Time Trends, Seasonal Variations, Intersurvey Differences, and Other Mysteries.
- Source:
- Social Psychology Quarterly, 1979, Vol. 42, 18 - 30
Investigation
- Public
- Adults, age range not reported, general public, United States, 1957
- Survey name
- US-SRC-422
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 2451
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
- Page in publication:
- 22
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 11%, 2: 54%, 3: 35% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.24 7.32
- SD:
- 0.63 1.65