| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Bernheim, J.L.; Hofmans, J.; Mazaheri, M.; Theuns, P. |
| Title | The Potential of Anamnestic Comparative Self Assessment (ACSA) to Reduce Bias in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being. |
| Source | Journal of Happiness Studies, 2006, Vol. 7, 227 - 250 |
| DOI | DOI:10.1007/s10902-005-4755-0 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | Patients university hospital, Berlin, Germany 1990-2003 |
| 1990-2003 | |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Sample | Non-probability chunk sample |
| All patients for whom data were available on both ACSA and CQ and the socio-demografic variables gender, age, marital status, education and emplolment, and who belonged to a principal diagnosis category numbering more than 70 cases. | |
| Respondents N = | 2584 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
| Filled out in waiting room of hospital, either on paper or on a palm-top computer | |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Please rate your life satisfaction these days, compared to the BEST and the WORST periods in your life that you have just identified Answers rated on an open line scale: -5 | worst period -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 +1 | +2 | +3 | +4 | +5 | best period Preceded by recall of best and worst periods in life-experience Name: ACSA (Anamnestic Comparative Self Assessment) |
| Classification | C-BW-c-sq-ol-11-a |
| Author's label | Amennestic Comparative Self-Assesment |
| Page in publication | 230-237 |
| Remarks | Means recoded from -5 to +5 to 0-10 Variance 7,74. skewness 0,41, kurtosis -0.69, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z 5,37 p<0.001 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.86 | |
| Standard deviation | 2.78 |
| Scores in | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| % | 134.0 | 124.0 | 101.0 | 126.0 | 90.0 | 158.0 | 105.0 | 39.0 | 51.0 | 35.0 | 37.0 |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Currently I am .. with life as a whole 1 very dissatisfied 2 dissatisfied 3 neither satisfied, nor dissatisfied 4 satisfied 5 very satisfied |
| Classification | O-SLW-c-sq-v-5-q |
| Author's label | Conventional Question (CQ) |
| Page in publication | 230-234 |
| Remarks | Transformed mean stretched to range 0-10 Variance 9.54, Skewness 0.05, Kurtosis -1.13, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z 10.15 p<0.001 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 5 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 4.69 | |
| Standard deviation | 3.08 |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Age | A04ab | Current age (in years) |
| Convential Question(CQ) | H07aa03e | O-SL by C-BW |
| Disease | H14ad | Current disease (who icd-10 classification) |
| Disease | H13ac | Current specific mental disorders (icd-10 classification), also classified as above ↑ |
| Employed | E02ab | Current employment status |
| Graduation | E01ab02 | Level of school-education |
| LSI | L04ag | Life-adjustment inventories |
| Marital status | M02af | Broken marriage (divorced and widowed vs married or never married |
| Sex | G01aa | Sex (male vs female) |
| socio-demographic variables | S15ab01 | Socio-demographic factors only |