| Self report on single question: Taking all together, how would you say things are these days - would you say you are..? 3 very happy 2 pretty happy 1 not too happy/not at all happy Question originally presented with four response options. Scores on the last two items were added | |
| Classification | |
| Focus, O-HL | Overall: Happiness in Life |
| Time frame, c | currently (today, these days, presently) |
| Mode, sq | 1 question |
| Scale type, v | verbal scale Range = 3 |
| Used in studies | |
| Reference | Requena (1995): study ES 1993 |
| Title | Friendship and Subjective Well-Being in Spain: A Cross-National Comparison with the United States. |
| Public | 18+ aged, general public, Spain, 1993 |
| Findings | distributional: yes, correlational: no |