Characteristics

Code:

O-HV-g-sq-v-5-a

Focus:

Overall: Happiness Various items (O-HV)

Time frame:

generally (g)

Mode:

1 question (sq)

Scale Type:

verbal scale (v)

Scale Range:

5

Description

Self report on single question:

Now I would like to ask you how you feel about life in general. Please look at this card carefully and pick out the answer that comes closest to your own feeling.
5  I am very happy and hopeful
4  I am more happy and hopeful than sad and worried
3  I am neither happy and hopeful, nor sad and worried
2  I am more sad and worried than happy and hopeful
1  I have sometimes been hopeless about life, and even thought about committing suicide