| Selfreport on single question: ." In general how happy or unhappy do you usually feel....?" Check the one statement that best describes your average happiness. 10 extremely happy (feeling ecstatic, joyous, fantastic) 9 very happy (feeling really good, elated) 8 pretty happy (spirits high, feeling good) 7 mildly happy (feeling fairly good and somewhat cheerful) 6 slightly happy (just a bit above neutral) 5 neutral (not particularly happy or unhappy) 4 slightly unhappy (just a bit below neutral) 3 mildly unhappy (just a little low) 2 pretty unhappy (somewhat "blue", spirits down) 1 very unhappy (depressed, spirits very low) 0 extremely unhappy (utterly depressed, completely down) | |
| Classification | |
| Focus, A-AOL | Affect: Average Overall Level |
| Time frame, g | generally |
| Mode, sq | 1 question |
| Scale type, v | verbal scale Range = 11 |
| Used in studies | |
| Reference | Charness & Grosskopf (2001): study ES 1998 |
| Title | Relative Pay offs and Happiness: An Experimental Study. |
| Public | University students, Barcelona, Spain, 1998 |
| Reference | Lee et al. (1999): study ZZ East-West pairs 1997 |
| Title | What Makes You Happy?: A Comparison of Self-Reported Criteria of Happiness between Two Cultures. |
| Public | Canadian and Korean university students. 1997 |