Publication |
Author(s) | Cheng, H.; Furnham, A. |
Title | Personality, Self-Esteem, and Demographic Predictions of Happiness and Depression. |
Source | Personality and Individual Differences, 2003, Vol. 34, 921- 942 |
DOI | DOI:10.1016/SO191-8869(02)00078-8 |
Investigation |
Public | Students, London, UK, 2003 |
| final year secondary school pupils and first year undergraduate students tested within 2 weeks of arriving at university. Mean age 18. |
Survey name | Not available |
Sample | Non-probability chunk sample |
Respondents N = | 234 |
Non Response | 0% |
Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
| Questionnaire completed in class |
Happiness measure(s) used |
Author's label | | Our subject description |
Beck Depression Inventory | show | Depressive (f31-33) |
Extraversion | show | Extraverted |
Extraversion | show | Scores on symptom inventories, also classified as above ↑ |
Father's employment | show | Unemployment of parents |
Friends | show | Satisfaction with friends |
Gender | show | Sex (male vs female) |
Happy | show | O-HL by A-AB |
Leisure | show | Satisfaction with leisure |
Lie scale | show | Defensive |
Mother's employment | show | Unemployment of parents |
Negative affect | show | Hedonic tone in affect |
Negative affect | show | Scores on symptom inventories, also classified as above ↑ |
Neuroticism | show | Neurotic (f48) |
Oxford Happiness Inventory | show | Happiness inventories involving unacceptable items |
Parental divorce | show | Number of parents (broken home) |
Positive Affect | show | Current affective life |
Positive Affect | show | Scores on symptom inventories, also classified as above ↑ |
Psychoticism | show | Psychotic |
Relationship with parents | show | Relations with parents |
Romance | show | Current love-life |
Self -esteem | show | Evaluation of self-as-a-whole |