Warr et al. (1979): study GB 1977
Publication
- Author(s):
- Warr, P.; Cook, J.; Wall, T.
- Title:
- Scales for the Measurement of Social Work Attitudes and Aspects of Psychological.
- Source:
- Journal of Occupational Psychology, 1979, Vol. 52, 129 - 148
Investigation
- Public
- Factory workers, blue collar, UK, 1977
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 590
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Two structured interviews
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are...?
3 very happy
2 fairly happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Remarks:
- sample 1 sample 2
range: 1 - 3 1 - 3
M : 2,24 2,12
Ms' : 6.2 5.6
SD : 0.53 0.71
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Finally, will you consider some other aspects of your life at the present moment, and indicate how satisfied you feel about each in turn....... Taking everything together, your life -as-a-whole- these days.......?
1 I'm extremely dissatisfied
2 I'm very dissatisfied
3 I'm moderately dissatisfied
4 I'm not sure
5 I'm moderately satisfied
6 I'm very satisfied
7 I'm extremely satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Overall life-satisfaction
- Error estimates:
- Reliability: Validity:
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.13 6.90
- SD:
- 1.28 -