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Correlational findings

Study Holloway & Carson (1999): study GB 1990

Public
Mental patients, UK, followed 3 years,1990-1993
Sample
Respondents
N = 70
Non Response
0
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
CPRS depression
Our Classification
Remarks
Comprehensive Psychiatric Rating Scale (CPRS) [Asberg et al 1978]
Operationalization
Reported
1. Sadness          
2. Elation          
3. Inner tension    
4. Hostile feelings
5. Inability to feel
6. Pessimistic thoughts
7. Suicidal thoughts
8. Hypochondriasis
9. Worrying over trifles
10. Compulsive thoughts
11. Phobias
12. Rituals
13. Indecision
14. Lassitude
15. Fatiguability
16. Concentration difficulties
17. Failing memory
18. Reduced appetite
19. Reduced sleep
20. Increased sleep
21. Reduced sexual interest
22. Increased sexual interest
23. Autonomic disturbances
24. Aches and pains
25. Muscular tension
26. Loss of sensation or movement
27. Realisation
28. Depersonalization
29. Feeling controlled
30. Disrupted thoughts
31. Ideas of persecution
32. Ideas of grandeur
33. Delusional mood
34. Ecstatic experiences
35. Morbid jealousy
36. Other delusions
37. Commenting voices
38. Other auditory hallucinations
39. Visual hallucinations
40. Other hallucinations

Observed
41. Apparent sadness
42. Elated mood
43. Hostility
44. Labile emotional responses
45. Lack of appropriate emotion
46. Autonomic disturbances
47. Sleepiness
48. Distractability
49. Withdrawal
50. Perplexity
51. Blank spells
52. Disorientation
53. Pressure of speech
54. Reduced speech
55. Specific speech defects
56. Flight of ideas
57. Incoherent speech
58. Perseveration
59. Overactivity
60. Slowness of movement
61. Agitation
62. Involuntary movements
63. Muscular tension
64. Mannerisms and postures
65. Hallucinatory behaviour
66. Global rating of illness
67. Assumed reliability of the rating

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-DT-u-sqt-v-7-a r = -.40 p < .000 O-DT-u-sqt-v-7-a rpc = -.01 p < .89 rpc controled for depression as measured with depression subscale of Comprehensive Psychiatric Rating Scale(CPRS)