The happiness item has excellent sensitivity to change for patients with BPD who were treated with GST [ 20].
The happiness item is a single question on general happiness in the months prior to the assessment and is scored on a seven point Likert scale [ 39].
For a single happiness item high test-retest reliability (r = 0.86) and good concurrent, convergent, and divergent validity have been reported [ 40].
The measures for convergent validity included a general happiness item, Satisfaction with Life Scale SWLSS) [ 17], two resilience measures - Brief COPE [ 18] and Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) [ 19], Personal Growth Initiative Scale (PGIS) [ 20], Multi-dimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) [ 21] and Daily Spirituality Experience Scale (DSES) [ 22].
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These studies have used regression techniques to estimate weights for EQ-5D and SF-6D, including self-reported happiness and satisfaction items [ 35, 36].
Divorce and the contemplation of happiness are both luxury items.
There are a number of tools available to measure SWB, including simple self-reported items on happiness and life satisfaction, and multi-item measures of psychological well-being such as WEMWBS [ 12].
The median year of examination for these individuals was 1986 for exam 5, 1996 for exam 6, and 2000 for exam 7. To measure happiness, we use four items from the CES-D in which people were asked how often they experienced certain feelings during the previous week: "I felt hopeful about the future," "I was happy," "I enjoyed life," "I felt that I was just as good as other people".
For example, association between the one-item general happiness measure and Spirituality were low (0.21, p < 0.01) while the two-item Brief Cope subscale scores were low across all domains.
