Holloway & Carson (1999): study GB 1990
Publication
- Author(s):
- Holloway, F.; Carson, J.
- Title:
- Subjective Quality of Life, Psychopathology, Satisfaction with Care and Insight: An Exploratory Study.
- Source:
- International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1999, Vol. 45, 259 - 267
Investigation
- Public
- Mental patients, UK, followed 3 years,1990-1993
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 70
- Non Response
- 0
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
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:
- Global Subjective Qualiry of Life; GSQOL
- Page in publication:
- 261
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.73 -
- SD:
- 1.38 -