For questions including positive item content, responses to the lowest levels of well-being were few, often as little as 1 2% of responses to that question.
Mastekaasa's (1992) event-history analyses indeed showed that persons with higher levels of well-being are more likely to get married.
In sum, the predicted rank-order from highest to lowest levels of well-being is as follows: married, cohabiting, dating, single, widowed, and divorced.
In the Heidelberg Centenarian Study, centenarians reported high levels of well-being and were found to be as happy as middle-aged adults, despite health limitations.
"Because Americans are so mobile," he said in a phone interview, "American levels of well-being can be explained in part by residential differences".
Similar to the earlier observed pattern in the bottom row, never married men report higher levels of well-being if they are dating or cohabiting compared to being single, whereas never married women report only higher levels of well-being only if they are cohabiting; dating and being single produce the same levels of well-being.
Levels of well-being in South Africa are out of whack with its GDP per head.
Of the 10 states with the highest levels of well-being, the majority are either in the West or Midwest.
The use of the WHO-Five scale in order to measure levels of well-being needs to be considered.
However, shifts in levels of well-being that can be attributed to treatment effects would yield weak test-retest reliability estimates.
