| Selfreport on three questions: 'On the average, what percentage of the time d you feel….…' (percentages must add up to 100%) 1 happy 2 unhappy 3 neutral Name: Fordyce % happy scale Variant: % unhappy | |
| Classification | |
| Focus, A-TH | Affect: Time Happy |
| Time frame, g | generally |
| Mode, mq | multiple questions |
| Scale type, th% | time happy percent Range = 101 |
| Used in studies | |
| Reference | Fordyce (1972): study US 1971 |
| Title | Happiness, its Daily Variation and its Relation to Values. |
| Public | University students, USA, 1971 |
| Findings | distributional: no, correlational: yes |
| Reference | Goldwurm et al. (2003): study IT 2001 |
| Title | Improving Subjective Well-Being for the Promotion of Health: The Milan Project. |
| Public | Participants in a happiness training, Italy, 2001 |
| Findings | distributional: yes, correlational: yes |
| Reference | Kasser & Ahuvia (2002): study SG 2000 |
| Title | Materialistic Values and Well-being in Business Students. |
| Public | Business students, Singapore, 2000 |
| Findings | distributional: no, correlational: yes |
| Reference | Lee et al. (1999a): study ZZ East-West pairs 1997 |
| Title | What Makes You Happy?: A Comparison of Self-Reported Criteria of Happiness between Two Cultures. |
| Public | Canadian and Korean university students. 1997 |
| Findings | distributional: yes, correlational: no |
| Reference | Smith et al. (1999): study US 1997 |
| Title | Dispositional Envy. |
| Public | Undergraduate students, USA, 1999 |
| Findings | distributional: no, correlational: yes |