Andrews & Withey (1976): study US 1972 /4
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, United States, 1972
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 1072
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
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
Name: Andrews & Withey's `Delighted-Terrible Scale' (original version) - Classification:
- O-DT-u-sq-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- G 1
- Remarks:
- Data November form 2
- Page in publication:
- 208/209
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.4%, 2: 1.1%, 3: 2.3%, 4: 12.6%, 5: 39.8%, 6: 35.3%, 7: 8.5% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.30 7.17
- SD:
- 0.99 1.65