Andrews & Withey (1976): study US 1972 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- Andrews, F.M.; Withey, S.B.
- Title:
- Social Indicators of Well-Being. Americans Perceptions of Life Quality.
- Source:
- Plenum Press, 1976, New York, USA
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, May 1972
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1297
- Non Response
- 24%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
using highly structured questionnaires
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:
- Life3 (G3)
- Remarks:
- Combination of two ratings on 7-step scale results in 14 steps, with the following frequencies
- Page in publication:
- 311
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.50 7.50
- SD:
- 0.91 1.52
- 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
- Author's label:
- Three-point happiness (G31)
- Page in publication:
- 319
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 9%, 2: 64%, 3: 27% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.18 7.17
- SD:
- 0.57 1.49