| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Suhail, K.; Chaudhry, H.R. |
| Title | Predictors of Subjective Well-Being in an Eastern Muslim Culture. |
| Source | Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2004, Vol. 23, 359 - 376. |
| DOI | DOI:10.1521/jscp.23.3.359.35451 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 16-80 aged, general public, Lahore, Pakistan, 2000 |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Sample | Probability area sample |
| 10 localities from upper-class areas to congested | |
| Respondents N = | 973 |
| 1000 available households, 20 refusals, 7 excluded questionaires (missing data), 973 questionaires | |
| Non Response | not reported |
| Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
| Questionnaire completed in presence of the interviewer. Illiterates were interviewed orally | |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Which face comes closest to expressing feeling about life as a whole? 7 delighted 6 very satisfying 5 satisfying 4 mixed 3 dissatisfying 2 very dissatisfying 1 terrible - No opinion Name: Andrews & Withey's "Delighted-Terrible Scale" (modified version) |
| Classification | O-DT-u-sq-f-7-a |
| Author's label | Personal happiness |
| Page in publication | 364-366 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| % | 1.0 | 3.0 | 9.0 | 21.0 | 27.0 | 28.0 | 11.0 |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Here is a picture of a ladder. Suppose we say that the top of the ladder (10) represents the best possible life for you and the bottom (1) represents the worst possible life for you. Where on the ladder do you feel personally stand at the present time? [ 10 ] best possible life for you [ 9 ] [ 8 ] [ 7 ] [ 6 ] [ 5 ] [ 4 ] [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 1 ] worst possible life for you Name: Cantril's self anchoring ladder rating of life (adapted version) |
| Classification | C-BW-c-sq-l-10-b |
| Author's label | Life satisfaction |
| Page in publication | 364 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.07 | 6.75 |
| Standard deviation | 2.05 | 2.28 |
| Scores in | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| % | 0.7 | 0.4 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 14.0 | 17.4 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 12.5 | 16.0 |
| Author's label | Our subject description | |
| Extraversion Introversion scale | show | Extraverted |
| Family income | show | Household income |
| Gender | show | Sex (male vs female) |
| Marital satisfaction | show | Satisfaction with marriage |
| Marital status | show | Married state (compared to non-married states) |
| Order of Birth | show | Birth order |
| Pesonal happiness | show | O-DT by C-BW |
| Religious beliefs | show | Current religious beliefs |
| Religious practices | show | Current religious practices |
| Self-Esteem | show | Evaluation of self-as-a-whole |
| Social Class | show | 'Objective' socio-economic status |
| Social support | show | Amount of current support received |
| Work satisfaction | show | Satisfaction with work-as-a-whole |