Block & Zautra (1981): study US Arizona 1979
Publication
- Author(s):
- Block, M.; Zautra, A.J.
- Title:
- Satisfaction and Distress in a Community: A Test of the Effects of Life Events.
- Source:
- American Journal of Community Psychology, 1981, Vol. 9, 165 - 180
Investigation
- Public
- General public, 3 cities, Arizona, USA, 1979
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 537
- Non Response
- 11 %
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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:
- quality of life
- Page in publication:
- 175
- Error estimates:
- r=+.71,repeat reliability.
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.34 -
- SD:
- 0.87 -